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Authorisation and Authentication Infrastructure (AAI)
Enables secure data sharing by communicating the permissions needed to conduct research
Secure data access across many different countries and institutions is critical to accelerating research. Developed by the GA4GH Data Security Work Stream in collaboration with the Data Use & Researcher Identities (DURI) Work Stream, the Authorisation and Authentication Infrastructure (AAI) specification can help automate the data access process by providing a mechanism to confirm a researcher’s digital identity and check their data access permissions.
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- Provides a secure method to authenticate a researcher’s identity and authorise their permissions for data access
- Allows centralisation of authentication and authorisation
- Enables federated analysis
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Developers, and security officers
Image summary: AAI builds a secure infrastructure for granting researchers access to datasets.
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- Martin Kuba
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Dive deeper into this product! AAI leverages the OpenID Connect (OIDC) industry standard to authenticate researchers’ identities and authorise their access to clinical and genomic resources. The specification employs access tokens to obtain “Passports” containing Visa tokens with specific permissions. These Passport and Visa tokens can be securely passed to other compatible data storage or analysis platforms and presented for subsequent data access requests. The AAI specification ultimately aims to develop an approach where data holders and data owners can recognise and accept identities across multiple systems, enabling researchers to get authorised access to more datasets and employ approaches such as federated analysis.
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28 Oct 2019
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23 Jul 2021
European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA)
ELIXIR Beacon
Human Cell Atlas
ELIXIR Cloud and AAI
NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability (NCPI) effort
Autism Sharing Initiative
Don't see your name? Get in touch:
- Dixie Baker
Martin, Blanck and Associates - Max Barkley
DNAstack - Michael Baudis
University of Zurich - David Bernick
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - Steven Brenner
University of California, Berkeley - Salvador Capella-Gutierrez
Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Knox Carey
Intertrust Technologies Corporation - Thomas Conner
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - Jaime Delgado
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Marc Fiume
DNAstack - Dean Hartley
Autism Speaks - Allison Heath
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Melissa Konopko
ELIXIR - Martin Kuba
Masaryk University, ELIXIR Cloud and AAI - Fabio Liberante
Wellcome Sanger Institute (WSI) - Alice Mann
Wellcome Sanger Institute (WSI) - Tommi Nyrönen
CSC – IT CENTER FOR SCIENCE - Jimmy Payyappilly
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) - Kurt Rodarmer
Independent Contributor - Christopher Siwy
NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) - Heidi Sofia
NIH National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) - Dylan Spalding
CSC – IT CENTER FOR SCIENCE - Jonathan Tedds
ELIXIR - Douglas Voet
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - Craig Voisin
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