Biomedical Informatics Program: Request for Proposals for GA Tech-Due Monday
The Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) is funded by the CTSA program (www.ctsaweb.org ) to promote discovery in clinical and translational research and build novel translational research capabilities. It is a multi-institutional partnership, led by Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Georgia Institute of Technology, that supports a wide range of studies at collaborating institutions. The ACTSI is finishing its third project year and looking towards its competitive renewal application in June of 2011.
The Biomedical Informatics Program (BIP) of the ACTSI has initiated an effort to design and develop an informatics architecture framework and middleware infrastructure, building on existing standards and best practices from the Web, Web Services, Semantic Web, and Grid Computing communities. This effort is driven by use cases and research applications from studies supported by the ACTSI.
The ACTSI informatics architecture will support the management, federated query, and integration of databases from ACTSI-supported studies and collaborating institutions, effectively creating a federated ACTSI-wide data warehouse. The federated data warehouse will contain a distributed collection of interoperable databases of various data types, including study specific clinical data, "omics" data, imaging data (Radiology and microscopy images), tissue specimen information, ECG data, and laboratory data obtained from EMRs.
The program is seeking teams of Georgia Tech faculty and graduate students to work with ACTSI to work with the broader ACTSI architectural design and development team to develop security and testing components of the ACTSI infrastructure.
The links below outline what BIP is seeking from Georgia Tech teams with regard to security and testing Biomedical Informatics Program components. In addition to the security and testing project areas we have specified, responses that address other key areas of ACTSI activity and that fit within the overall BIP plan and goals will also be considered. Please submit these proposals to s.johnson@emory.edu by Monday, June 7, 2010. These proposals should be no more than five pages in length. The BIP documents can be found here:
Scope of Work: ACTSI Informatics Architecture Security Infrastructure
Scope of Work: ACTSI Informatics Architecture Software Testing