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International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics

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C-Grid: Enabling iRODS-based Grid Technology for Community Health Research

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A Community Grid web portal, C-Grid, has been developed in this study for storing, managing and sharing large amounts of distributed community health related data in a data grid, thus facilitating further analysis of these datasets by health researchers in a collaborative environment. Remote management of this data grid is performed using the middleware iRODS, the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System. A PHP-based wrapper, ez-iRODS, has been created as a component of C-Grid to interact with this middleware through PRODS, a client application programming interface (API). C-Grid serves as a gateway for the XSEDE resources, and also helps the users via ez-iRODS to create and manage ‘virtual data collection’ that can be stored in heterogeneous data resources across the distributed network. This web-based system has been developed with an objective of long-term data preservation, unified data access and sharing domain specific data amongst the scientific research collaborators of myCHOIS project.

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    Nitin Sukhija

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    Arun K. Datta

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  3. Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

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Sukhija, N., Datta, A.K. (2013). C-Grid: Enabling iRODS-based Grid Technology for Community Health Research. In: Bursa, M., Khuri, S., Renda, M.E. (eds) Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics. ITBAM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8060. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40093-3_2

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