Secure digital spaces for accessing and analyzing PEPR SAMS data.
The Cloud4SAMS targeted project aims to deploy a distributed digital infrastructure allowing researchers to exploit microbiome and health data in a secure computing environment. It relies on the federation of computing resources operated by different institutions and distributed across different sites: datasets produced by microbiome projects (including those that will be funded by the PEPR SAMS), software tools and workflows for processing these data, computing platforms and storage appropriate for processing microbiome data and matching them with health data.
These resources will be indexed in the Cloud4SAMS catalog (WP2), and will serve as building blocks to define deployment recipes describing all the procedures for instantiating a virtual machine in a secure cloud (WP3), for installing the entire software environment and for hosting the datasets required for the project. Access to this data (WP4) is facilitated by an interface which manages requests to the access committees of each project, the validation of authorizations, the ad hoc extraction of data and their transfer to secure spaces.
BiRD is involved in the development of the catalog (WP2) and the secure access to the data (WP4).
This project is coordinated by IFB
