New Services portfolio online
Intersect provides professionally developed and operated services for university members and the wider research community. Services are targeted at enhancing the capability (skills) and capacity (resources) of institutions, disciplines and research groups.
We've reorganised our service offering to make it easier to understand how you can engage with our team across three phases of the eResearch lifecycle: Planning Research, Conducting Research and Post-Research.
For more, see http://www.intersect.org.au/services-portfolio
Launchpod builds your software in the cloud
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Launchpod is a tool developed by Intersect which allows anyone from an Australian research institution to quickly and easily deploy a virtual machine and run software for use in the cloud. Cloud computing means you don’t need to have expensive high-powered computing resources to run complex analytical software. Launchpod makes cloud computing even easier by taking care of the complex software management, letting you get on with using the tools for your research.
Launchpod works like a wizard: all you need to do is fill in some basic details, and it takes care of the technical details. So you can build a machine to run R Studio or Matlab in the cloud without having download CentOS packages or install Apache. Best of all, Launchpod uses your personal NeCTAR Research Cloud allocation, meaning any Australian researcher can build a virtual machine for free.
Intersect already offers eight powerful applications that can be launched using Launchpod, and we plan to add more. As of now, you can build a machine to run Omeka, Diver, LimeSurvey, Matlab, Alveo, R Studio, the CSIRO Workspace or a Twitter scraper.
Click here for more information about how you can use Intersect's Launchpod to deploy a virtual machine.
Intersect and the Ingham Institute working together
Image courtesy of A/Prof Daniel Catchpoole
Following two previous requirements-gathering projects for the Cancer Institute of NSW, Intersect is collaborating on two further projects.
Intersect is undertaking an in-depth case study outlining the challenges and successes in deployment of LabMatrix as a Biobanking Data Management tool at the Ingham Institute. The Ingham has established a Translational Cancer Research Unit (TCRU) focused on a collaborative approach to research and patient care in the area of cancer. This project is piloting, for the first time in Australia, an informatics solution for sample and data management of colorectal cancer specimens. If successful, this solution could become the standard for sample and data management throughout the Ingham Institute and potentially all of New South Wales.
We are also working with the Australian Breast Cancer Tissue Bank (ABCTB) to survey the biobanks of the Biobanking Stakeholder Network to discover the various protocols around research results and what systems they have in place. The BSN-funded project is running an instance of Limesurvey (provisioned using Launchpod) which hosts a survey created by the ABCTB. The aim is to establish a collaborative system for the management of research outputs generated by third parties from samples held in BSN biobanks. These research outputs, when associated with the core, original data could provide valuable additional biomedical context to the samples, and significantly enrich the information available to subsequent users of the biobanking resource.
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