1. IWPLS'09 - International Workshop on Portals for Life Sciences Generation Scotland Data Access Portal Archie Campbell Data Analyst / Programmer Generation Scotland University of Edinburgh Dave Liewald Informatics R&D Manager Generation Scotland CCACE Database Manager Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology University of Edinburgh

2.  University of Edinburgh (IGMM/MMC)  University of Dundee (Health Informatics Centre)  University of Glasgow (Robertson Centre)  University of Aberdeen (Foresterhill Health Centre)  NHS Scotland (Information Services Division)  Not forgetting… Who is Generation Scotland? 17,322+ volunteers

3. Generation Scotland aims to:  Recruit a prospective, intensively phenotyped family based cohort and associated control sample sets  Identify genetic contributions to complex disease & related quantitative traits  Apply genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology to public health for the diagnosis, prognosis & prevention of ill health  Act as a platform for translational research, rational drug discovery & clinical trials What does Generation Scotland do? Generation Scotland aims to create more effective treatments based on gene knowledge. www.generationscotland.org

4. GS Projects

5. GS Data Access Portal: Constraints  Money  Time  Ability  Project Structure

6. GS Data Access Portal: Technology  Web server – MS Windows Server 2003  Web front end – Joomla CMS template  Application layer - Borland Delphi (Intraweb)  Back end database - MySQL

7. GS Data Access Portal: Overview  Data Viewers  Documentation  Collaboration Proposals

8. GS Data Access Portal: Acknowledgements Generation Scotland: Robin Morton Pamela Linksted Shona Kerr Lynne Hope Prof. David Porteous CCACE: Dave Liewald Prof. Ian Deary Any Questions? NeSC Edinburgh