Conveners
Pipeline Interoperability Using Containers in the Context of Personalized Health Research
- Balazs Laurenczy (ETH Zurich)
Description
Research in personalized health, as for example within the upcoming Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) or related research initiatives, has stringent requirements on data confidentiality, reproducibility and interoperability between the different University hospitals and academic compute centers of Switzerland. Container technologies like Docker and Singularity provide efficient, yet flexible, means of abstraction to accommodate data work flows under such requirements within existing IT compute and data infrastructures. In this talk, I will elaborate on the experience we have gained from a collaborative containerization / pipeline interoperability pilot project carried out within the framework of the Swissuniversity / e-science coordination team on a national scale with the participation of all major Swiss universities.
