Biomedical Research Informatics Delivered by Grid Enables Services project (BRIDGES): was funded by the UK Government Department of Trade and Industry and completed at the end of 2005. It’s focus was on the incremental development of a Grid infrastructure supporting the secure, transparent federation of biomedical databases within the framework of the large Wellcome Trust biomedical research project Cardiovascular Functional Genomics exploring genetic causes of hypertension and schizophrenia. BRIDGES developed an extensive e-Infrastructure for access to and usage a multitude of large-scale compute resources consisting of heterogeneous job scheduling systems including the UK National Grid Service and many other resources. BRIDGES also applied open source data access and integration technologies as well as commercial data integration technologies (IBM’s Information Integrator) for large-scale access to functional genomics data sets. Security considerations formed a cornerstone of BRIDGES and fine-grained authorisation infrastructures for compute and data grids were rolled out and successfully exploited.

An Analytical Platform for the Integration of VicHealth Indicators Survey and Spatial Objective Contextual Data (VicHealth) commenced in 2013 as part of the AURIN project. The VicHealth system provides seamless and secure access to unit level data from the Department of Health in Victoria through a unique location identity-protecting manner. A paper describing this solution is available here.