Health-e-Child

The common interest among D4Science and Health-e-Child is mainly on technological aspects.

Technology

The D4Science and Health-e-Child projects share the base technology for the information/data processing pipeline, both building on top of the Grid and the OGSA paradigm and the Globus WS-Core framework. Since the beginning of the projects the flow of technology from D4Science to Health-e-Child started with quite concrete artifacts and resulted in rich feedback flowing back from the Health-e-Child implementation teams, which significantly improved the quality and completeness of fundamental gCube components, such as the ResultSet and the search engine. Nowadays, D4Science is closely observing the evolution occurring within Health-e-Child so as to adopt the new significant artifacts developed there, which stem from the special requirements of the Bioinformatics and Medical community served by the project. In this direction it has proved extremely important that the two projects share a common implementation base, since this significantly reduces the costs of materializing the collaboration results. NKUA, a common partner of Health-e-Child and D4Science, is the flow channel of information and technology among the two projects. Regular meetings occur nearly every week not only for exchanging information on each other’s progress, problems and challenges but also for studying fields of common interest for future implementation.