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What is Five Safes TES?

Prerequisites

  • Basic understanding of the definition of a TRE 
  • Basic understanding of the definition of a federation 

Overview

Five Safes TES (5S-TES) enables secure cross-TRE federated analytics, where data remains in place and only analysis code is sent to the data. Building upon the Five Safes framework and the Task Execution Service (TES) standards, it is specifically designed to meet technical and governance constraints of TREs by separating the stages of a federated project.

5S-TES is a collaboration between Swansea University and the University of Nottingham, focused on delivering new capability to existing research data infrastructure.

Core capabilities

  • Enhances GA4GH TES to receive and process federated analysis requests from multiple TREs.
  • Supports Safe Data through configuration of specific and timebound data access for users.
  • Performs analyses only for a project that has been approved by the TRE, deeming them a Safe Project.
  • Only permits research users that have been accredited and established, indicating them as Safe People.
  • Maintains Safe Setting with execution of analysis occurring within a TRE.
  • Provides manual disclosure control functionality within TREs, adhering to Safe Outputs.

5S-TES is foundational to the various programmes, including HDR UK Federated Analytics , DARE UK TREvolution programme , and EOSC-ENTRUST .

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