E-Infrastructure for Data Sharing in the SINAPSE Project

SINAPSE is the “Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence”; it comprises a collaboration of six universities with research imaging facilities. Its objectives are to develop imaging expertise, support multi-centre clinical research in conjunction with the Clinical Research Networks, improve the ability of neuroscientists to collaborate on clinical trials and have a direct impact on patient health. One of the means to achieve these objectives is to provide an e-infrastructure that enables multi-centre clinical research through data sharing. The main objectives of the SINAPSE e-infrastructure project are:

• Anonymisation, automatic compliance with data protection policies;
• Security, advanced authentication and authorisation with projects;
• Usability, providing a user friendly environment to access data and applications;
• Modularity, conforming to relevant standards and use of existing components;
• Centralisation, leveraging existing compute clusters and storage.