title: Research traceability using provenance services for biomedical analysis.
abstract: We outline the approach being developed in the neuGRID project to use provenance management techniques for the purposes of capturing and preserving the provenance data that emerges in the specification and execution of workflows in biomedical analyses. In the neuGRID project a provenance service has been designed and implemented that is intended to capture, store, retrieve and reconstruct the workflow information needed to facilitate users in conducting user analyses. We describe the architecture of the neuGRID provenance service and discuss how the CRISTAL system from CERN is being adapted to address the requirements of the project and then consider how a generalised approach for provenance management could emerge for more generic application to the (Health)Grid community.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Ashiq
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anjum
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bloodsworth
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Branson
authors.forename: Irfan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Habib
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: McClatchey
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Solomonides
authors.forename: Kamran
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Soomro
authors.lastname: The Neugrid Consortium
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*