Reusable services from the neuGRID project for grid-based health applications

Anjum, Ashiq; Bloodsworth, Peter; Habib, Irfan; Lansdale, Tom; McClatchey, Richard; Mehmood, Yasir; Consortium, the neuGRID

Abstract

By abstracting Grid middleware specific considerations from clinical research applications, re-usable services should be developed that will provide generic functionality aimed specifically at medical applications. In the scope of the
neuGRID project, generic services are being designed and developed which will be applied to satisfy the requirements of neuroscientists. These services will bring together sources of data and computing elements into a single view as far as applications are concerned, making it possible to cope with centralised, distributed or hybrid data and provide native support for common medical file formats. Services will include querying, provenance, portal, anonymization and pipeline services together with a 'glueing' service for connection to Grid services. Thus lower-level services will hide the peculiarities of any specific Grid technology from upper layers, provide application independence and will enable the selection of 'fit-for-purpose' infrastructures. This paper outlines
the design strategy being followed in neuGRID using the glueing and pipeline services as examples.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: 7th HealthGrid Int. Conference, HG’09
• Start Date: Jun 1, 2009
• End Date: Jun 1, 2009
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2009
• Journal: STUDIES IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 147
• Pages: 283-288
• Keywords: service oriented architectures, grid computing, health applications, software reuse
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1000505
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-027-8-283
• Related Public URLs: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5516v1
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Imported from arXiv; Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : 7th HealthGrid Int. Conference, HG’09