Projects

Current Projects

A Proxy Credential Auditing Infrastructure for the UK e-Science National Grid Service (pca)
http://www.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/pcs/
This project has been funded by JISC to develop solutions for proxy credentails usage in highly distributed environments such as Grids.


Advanced Arterial Hypotension Adverse Event Prediction through a Novel Bayesian Neural Network (AVERT-IT)
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/hub/projects/avert-it/index.htm
The AVERT-IT project has recently been funded by the EU under the FW7 ICT e-Health programme. This 3-year project will provide a system where secure access to a range of neurological/brain trauma data... [visit website] [view summary]


Advanced Grid Authorisation through Semantic Technologies (AGAST)
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/agast/
The JISC funded AGAST project is a collaboration between the NeSC at Glasgow and the University of Leicester. It begins in May 2008 and will run for 12 months. Its focus is to investigate the extent to... [visit website] [view summary]


ATLAS UK Computing (ATLAS)
http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/Welcome.html
The UK involvement to the ATLAS construction phase represents a £74.2M investment by the UK. There are twelve UK institutions contributing to the project, and the UK has a long record of positions of... [visit website] [view summary]


Breast Cancer Tissue Bank (BCTB)
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/bctb/
This small project has been funded by the Scottish Bioinformatics Forum (www.sbforum.org). It is focused upon development of a proof of concept portal and services for access to and usage of the data... [visit website] [view summary]


Data Management through e-Social Science (DAMES)
http://www.dames.org.uk/
DAMES is a research Node for the National Centre for e-Social Science. The Node commences 1st February 2008. The Node will undertake a series of activities involving case studies, provision and support... [visit website] [view summary]


ETF Project Activities
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/etf/index.html
The Grid Engineering Task Force (ETF) is a collaboration of e-Science centres around the UK. It is funded by the core e-Science program and has been running since 2001. The National e-Science Centre at... [visit website] [view summary]


European Network for the Study of Adenal Tumours (enSAT) (enSAT)
http://www.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/ensat/
This project has been funded by the ESF to develop a security-oriented e-Infrastructure to support research into adrenal tumours as part of large European collaboration.


Generation Scotland, Scottish Family Health Study (GSSFHS)
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/ghi/
Sorry there is no for this project. You can find out more details by clicking on the link. [more details]


Grid Based Medical Devices for Everday Health (Medical Devices IRC)
http://www.gridoutreach.org.uk/docs/pilots/meddev.htm
This proposal seeks to investigate how future Grid based technologies can be exploited to support e-science that has a large field based component where some form of detachment from on-line connection... [visit website] [view summary]


Integrating VOMS and PERMIS for Superior Grid Authorisation (VP-Authz)
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/hub/projects/vp-authz/
A JISC funded project looking at the integration of VOMS and PERMIS technologies for superior Grid Security.


Investigation of the molecular pathogenisis and pathophysiology of Disorders of Sex Development (EURODSD)
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/hub/projects/eurodsd/index.htm
The EuroDSD project has recently been funded by the EU under the FW7 ICT e-Health programme. This 3-year project will provide a system where secure access to a range of clinical data related to sex development... [visit website] [view summary]


Meeting the Design Challenges of Nano-CMOS Electronics (nanoCMOS)
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/nanoCMOS/index.html
The years of "happy scaling" are over: the fundamental challenges that the semiconductor industry faces, at both the technological and design levels, will impinge deeply upon the design of future integrated... [visit website] [view summary]


National e-Science Centre Information Network (NIN)
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/


National e-Science Centre Phase 3 (NeSC3)
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/
Please see website for further details and the project proposal.


National e-Science Centre Research Platform Grant (NRP)


OGC/Collision Course (see-GEO)
http://edina.ac.uk/projects/seesaw/seegeo/about_benchmarking.html
The mains aims of the project are: Making geospatial data securely available on the UK Grid Service for use by the UK academic sector;Increasing the availability of computational resources; processing... [visit website] [view summary]


OMII-RAVE Visualisation Demonstrator (OMII-RAVE)

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OMII-Security Portlets (OMII-SP)
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/hub/projects/omii-sp/
The OMII-UK, OMII-SP (alternatively known SPAM-GP) project aims to produce a set of JSR-168 compliant portlets to simplify the configuration of complex security infrastructures. These portlets allow administrators... [visit website] [view summary]


Pharming of Therapeutic RNA Project (siRNA)
http://www.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/sirna/


Scottish Bioinformatics Research Network (SBRN) (SBRN)
http://www.sbrn.ac.uk/
The Scottish Bioinformatics Research Network (SBRN) has been funded over 4 years by SHEFC, SE and SEERAD and involves the universities of Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh. SBRN will provide the infrastructure... [visit website] [view summary]


Scottish Health Informatics Platform for Research (SHIP)
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/hub/projects/ship/
The SHIP project has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, EPSRC, ESRC and the MRC to develop an e-Infrastructure for secure access to clinical data sets for research purposes. Working in close collaboration... [visit website] [view summary]


Towards a European infrastructure for e-Science digital repositories (e-SciDR)
http://www.e-scidr.eu/
e-SciDR is a study led by the Digital Archiving Consultancy on behalf of the European Commission to drive forward the development and use of digital repositories in the EU in all areas of science, from... [visit website] [view summary]


Virtual Organisations for Trials and Epidemiological Studies (VOTES)
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/votes/
The Virtual Organisations for Trials and Epidemiological Studies (VOTES) project has been funded by the Medical Research Countil for 3 years. It involves the universities of Glasgow, Oxford, Imperial... [visit website] [view summary]


Completed Projects

BioMedical Research Informatics Delivered by Grid Enabled Services Cardiovascular Functional Genomics - An integrated distributed database facility (BRIDGES)
http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/projects/bridges/
BRIDGES will incrementally develop and explore database integration over six geographically distributed research sites within the framework of a large Wellcome Trust biomedical research project. Three... [visit website] [view summary]


Dynamic Virtual Organisations in e-Science Education (DyVOSE)
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/dyvose/
DyVOSE is a 2-year project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) involving the National e-Science Centre at both the University of Glasgow and Edinburgh, the University of Salford and... [visit website] [view summary]


Environmental e-Science IRC: Linking Environmental e-Science in the lab and in the Field (Environmental e-Science IRC)
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/grid-outreach/docs/pilots/equator.htm
The Global Grid Forum has established the ACE Grid research group to explore advanced collaborative environments for e-science. This project will contribute to this work by exploring how collaborative... [visit website] [view summary]


ESP-GRID: Evaluation of Shibboleth and PKI for Grids (ESP-GRID)
http://e-science.ox.ac.uk/oesc/projects/index.xml.ID=body.1_div.1#esp
The main aim of this project is to investigate how Shibboleth offers solutions to issues of GRID authentication, authorisation and security. It will also reappraise the use of Public Key Infrastructure... [visit website] [view summary]


GLASgow Early Adoption of Shiboleth (GLASS)
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/glass/
In this proposal we wish to investigate how the integrated directory infrastructure for unified user account management currently being rolled out across the University of Glasgow can be utilised in a... [visit website] [view summary]


Grid Enabled Biochemical Pathway Simulator (Grid-BPS)
http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/projects/bps/index.html
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Grid Enabled Microarray Expression Profile Service (GEMEPS)
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/gemeps/index.html
The aim of this project is to develop Grid based solutions that facilitate the discovery and re-use of previously undertaken microarray experiments. In doing so, we will demonstrate the efficacy of Grid... [visit website] [view summary]


Grid enabled Occupational Data Environment (GEODE)
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/geode/
A Grid enabled internet portal will be explored in order to facilitate the processing of occupational data from social survey and related outputs. The portal will utilise a number of features which are... [visit website] [view summary]


Grid Security Report
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/GridSecurityReport/index.html
The Grid Security: Middleware, Practices and Outlook report was funded by JISC to explore the landscape of Grid security. The report summarises experiences of existing Grid middleware and practices today... [visit website] [view summary]


Joint Data Standards Study (JDSS)
http://labserv.nesc.gla.ac.uk/projects/jdss/
JDSS will investigate large scale data sharing in the life sciences and focus in particular on data standards, incentives, barriers and funding models to facilitate this.


National e-Science Centre Phase 2 (NeSC2)
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/
Please see website for further details and the project proposal.


The Grid for UK Particle Physics (GridPP)
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/
We propose to deploy a Grid as the main mechanism for delivering very large scale computational resources to the UK Particle Physics community. We believe this foundation will underpin the success, and... [visit website] [view summary]