To help researchers learn about finding, accessing and analysing sensitive human data in a federated fashion, the CINECA project has developed a learning pathway. In this blog, we describe why federated data analysis is important, what is included in the learning pathway and how it can be accessed.
Read MoreIn the Passport is the glue between the researcher, data and computing blog post I introduced GA4GH Passports as an enabler of “the bring compute to data” paradigm. CINECA WP2 also contributed to GA4GH Passport standard for Digital identity and access permissions publication in Cell Genomics in autumn 2021.
Read MoreThis month’s blog was written by Nicola Mulder, Professor and head of the Computational Biology division at the University of Cape Town, and Principal investigator of H3ABioNet, a Pan African bioinformatics network for H3Africa, and Mamana Mbiyavanga, a Bioinformatics Scientist and PhD student at UCT, who contribute to a diverse range of CINECA work packages. This blog is less of a technical report in our Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) standards series than the previous 4, and more of a report on how WP6 - ‘Outreach, training and dissemination’ is contributing to developing better implementation of GA4GH standards.
Read MoreThis month’s blog was written by Melanie Courtot, metadata standards coordinator at EMBL-EBI and co-Work Package Lead of CINECA WP3 - Cohort Level Metadata Representation. This blog is the fourth in our Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) standards series, presenting an overview of how GA4GH standards are being developed and implemented by CINECA. In our April post about Passport, Mikael from CINECA WP2 explained the importance of controlled-access to protect sensitive data, federated data access in the cloud and how Passport enables researchers to authenticate - prove they are who they say they are.
Read MoreThis month’s blog was written by Mikael Linden, Senior application specialist at CSC - IT Center for Science, and co-Work Package Lead of CINECA WP2 - Interoperable Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure. This blog is the third in our GA4GH standards series, presenting an overview of how GA4GH standards are being developed and implemented by CINECA. For the first blog in the series, giving a broad overview of how CINECA is facilitating federated data discovery, access and analysis, please see Dylan Spalding’s blog Implementation of GA4GH standards in CINECA.
Read MoreThe project published seven recommendations to cohorts, federated authentication providers, DAC tools providers and the GA4GH’s DURI workstream that prepares relevant standards for global use.
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