[lsg-rg] new impetus...?[MESSAGE NOT SCANNED]

[Richard Sinnott]

I see the agenda for GGF17 in Tokyo has been established
(http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?id=298). Is this
confirmed and will all people listed be attending and presenting? I must
admit that I have no idea what will be presented above since I have not
seen any visible activity in this group/email list, and most of the
agenda look similar to previous GGFs (has the Best Practices in Life
Science Grids changed since last time or the time before that etc?). 
 
Unfortunately I will not be able to attend the next GGF, but I am keen
to see the work of this group progress. I previously suggested future
activities in two areas described below. Are people happy with this
idea? Can we start identifying people/resources/projects that can be
used to explore the bioinformatics and HealthGrid problem spaces, and
how we want to align ourselves with the GGF Grid Interoperability Now
activity for example?
 
My NeSC colleague (Anthony Stell) will be available to give a
presentation and demonstration on security focused Grid based clinical
trials and epidemiological studies. Can this be put in the agenda? Are
there other projects out there that are in this area that want to
present?
 
It might not be my remit to put such questions as I'm not formally the
LSG-RG anything, but the group needs to be more proactive if it is to be
worthwhile.
 
Rich
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From: owner-lsg-rg at ggf.org [mailto:owner-lsg-rg at ggf.org] On Behalf Of
Richard Sinnott
Sent: 16 February 2006 20:57
To: lsg-rg at ggf.org
Subject: [lsg-rg] new impetus...?[MESSAGE NOT SCANNED]



Hi Folks,
it seems clear that there needs to be some more impetus to this group at
GGF.

Here are a couple of ideas which we might take forward/discuss. I'd
welcome agreements/disagreements - silence is normally golden but not on
email lists!!!

Split into a healthGrid group and a life science group (here I'm
thinking of a bioinformatics Grid)

1. Let us develop a real HealthGrid with folk who are interested in this
area (I am one and we have already built various prototype systems
accessing and using "representative" patient data sets using existing
solutions across the NHS here in Scotland).

2. Let us develop a real life science Grid. We are interested in this
and have bioinformatics data Grids and compute Grids already in place.

Is this of interest? I think it will help to make this group have a
goal. We might want to agree on the scope of these, e.g. whether we just
want to look at exploring basic secure services for access to and usage
of healthcare data sets, incorporating anonymisation and
de-anonymisation scenarios, data linkage perhaps from patient records to
imaging data etc.

We are already working with advanced authorisation infrastructures using
results from GGF standards groups such as AuthZ and ShibGrid. This group
(in my humble opinion should be doing these kinds of things) if it is to
be "GGF". If it isn't using GGF standards and technologies then one
coule argue that it should be handled separately, e.g. through other
conferences and workshops.

What do folk think?

Rich

PS I am happy to provide more information on what we are up to at the
National e-Science Centre, and am willing to lead/be involved in both of
these Grid development activities if there is interest from folk that it
should happen. Let's do stuff!

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