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E-research grant success

24 August 2005

Monash researchers have been awarded more than $440,000 for e-research projects in the Australian Research Council e-Research grants, announced last week.

Researchers from the faculties of Information Technology; Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences; Science and Arts are leading three funded projects and are partners in a further two.

The Monash led-projects include developing a collaborative online environment and workbench to investigate protein folding, using grid technology to further studies in Australian climate variability, and developing algorithms for the improved transfer of data relating to biological discoveries.

Monash is also a partner in a University of Sydney led project, which will develop a Grid Enabled Multi-Level Instrument Network for use in e-research. The project will leverage middleware (which enables interaction between hardware and network environments), web services and e-Science software developments in the US and UK to provide remote access and data analysis for e-Research.

In a separate collaboration, Monash researchers will work with the University of Queensland to investigate grid software infrastructure for large-scale data resource sharing between research institutions, initially focusing on environmental sciences data.

Deputy vice-chancellor (Research) Professor Edwina Cornish said Monash recognised the importance of eResearch to the future competitiveness of Australia's research effort and was investing in enabling services to support Monash researchers adopting eResearch methods.

"Monash has made a significant commitment to eResearch through the establishment of the Monash eResearch Centre," she said.

"We anticipate that eResearch will have a big impact on the quality and scale of Monash's research in areas as diverse as structural biology, engineering and climate modeling."