BRISSKit is led by Dr Jonathan Tedds, Senior Research Fellow in Health And Research Data Informatics in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Leicester. Jisc, working in partnership with the University of Leicester, investigated the development of BRISSKit into a service to be offered to UK universities as part of the Jisc portfolio during 2014-15.
The solution has been developed collaboratively to meet the requirements of the University of Leicester biomedical research groups in the cardiovascular, respiratory, genetics and health sciences as well as the University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust and national pilot partners. Maximum benefit has been gained by sharing experience with others notably the DCC, Jisc, Janet, HEFCE, OSSWatch, Eduserv, UCL Institute of Child Health, University of Birmingham and other institutions, assisted by Charles Beagrie Ltd, H2 Software Solutions Ltd, Reedmace Ltd, 4th Level IT Ltd, Guildfoss Ltd, Akriga Ltd and the University of Oxford.
BRISSkit was previously funded by the JISC UMF Shared Services and the Cloud Programme. Its main aim was to design, deliver and begin to exploit a national data hosting service for researchers in the field of Biomedicine and Bioinformatics. Components were provided based on open source developed solutions which can be hosted externally where appropriate and accessed securely over the UK Janet academic network. The service was originally developed in partnership between the University of Leicester and the Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit based at the Glenfield Hospital in the University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust.
The core project team has been based both at the Glenfield Hospital in the Cardiovascular Research Centre and on the main University of Leicester campus and more recently in the new state-of-the-art Centre for Medicine Building at the University of Leicester. We acknowledge the following individuals for their many and varied contributions since 2011.