Engineering

Intersect takes on a range of projects to assist research in NSW. These projects are available for all members to use. If you are interested in any of Intersect's projects, please contact us at enquiries@intersect.org.au.

Projects typically involve customised development, technology aggregation and system integration.

Selection of projects is based on the following factors:

Reusability: how many different research groups could potentially use the technology we develop?
Research impact and priorities
Member benefit: to ensure that all of our member organisations have fair access to our project resources
Project value and impact:
- Enabling high profile NSW research groups to improve collaboration scope
- Enabling an emerging research area
- Enabling NSW research to build linkages and collaboration with other disciplines

Intersect carries out projects funded from various schemes. Intersect also carries out "Innovation Projects" as part of member services. The Innovation Selection Process is set out here.

Reusability

Our aim is to select projects which provide services to many research endeavours. We achieve this by creating configurable and skinable solutions based on the needs of particular research projects.

Often, a customised solution may become a reusable solution based on similar but different needs arising from other research groups.

This results in a portfolio of reusable technologies and solutions. Intersect will reuse open source and other eResearch technologies when and where possible. Intersect will contribute technologies back to the open source eResearch community.

Software Development Practices

Intersect's projects are executed to a high quality standard and take advantage of current best practices in software development
We ensure that our developed systems are usable and attractive
Our projects are professionally project managed.

Open Source

We aim to use open source technologies for development work. Should commercial technologies prove to be most effective, we will utilise them to provide the best solution.

Projects List

Here is a selection of Intersect's projects:

Intersect Projects: Past, Present, Future
Agriculture and environmental data (DC2D)
AMMRF
Australian Equities Database
Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank
AustLII
Biomechanics Data Capture (DC10A)
Bioplatforms Australia
Breast Cancer Microscop y (EIF017)
Caretrack
caTissue
DataWise
Entree
Environmental Metabolomics Information System
Exploring Processes of Change
Federation of National Astronomy Datasets
Field Helper (EIF09)
Flow Data Flow
Genomic Data Analysis
Health News
Healthy.me
History of Aboriginal Sydney
International Field Emission Society
MeCAT
Metadata Aggregator (DC2F)
Microscopy Data Capture & Deposit (DC2E)
Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
NCW Beadle Herbarium
NSW TARDIS (DC2C)
Population Health Research Network Infrastructure
SA NT Datalink
Spectral Library (DC10)
Sydney Playground Database
Rainfall
UNSW Data Capture & Integration
UWS Environmental Sensor Data Capture
WOMBAT

Testimonials

“We can now store massive amounts of genomic data, share it with our colleagues and analyse it in a seamless manner.

This is fundamental infrastructure that underpins genomic research. Without it, we just can’t do the work.”

Professor Marc Wilkins
Ramaciotti Centre for Gene Function Analysis

“The new Intersect developed system will allow us to seamlessly collect clinical information from people with schizophrenia and to track the stored data as it progresses through the various processing and data analysis stages.

Intersect is not only helping the ASRB to develop expert IT capacity, but is creating a secure commercial grade system that will revolutionise the way schizophrenia research data is collected, stored and disseminated in Australia”

Dr Carmel Loughland
Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank Manager

“Intersect was able to provide us with specialised user interaction design skills at a critical moment in the development of the healthy.me consumer ehealth research platform.

It was a highly effective way to access system design skills for a short sharp burst, and Intersect filled the gap for us beautifully.”

Professor Enrico Coiera
Director of the Centre for Health Informatics
UNSW

“The AMMRF offers a complete user experience involving the stages of project registration, planning and training followed by data gathering, analysis, management and publication. Intersect is enabling improvement of the user experience through the development of tools that enable researchers to identify and apply the appropriate technology quickly, and manage the storage and use of large data sets.”

Professor Simon Ringer, Executive Director
Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility

We are now able to share with other researchers over 23,000 video clips on health coverage in news and current affairs programs dating from 2005. This is a globally unique collection that will be invaluable to media researchers. The Intersect staff are wonderful communicators and once they started working with us, the job was rapidly completed.”

Professor Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney on Health News

“Intersect has provided AustLII with the technical capacity to carry out a range of short, medium and long-term projects with great flexibility. We have appreciated the ability to find staff with a range of technical skill sets quickly. We look forward to a mutually beneficial relationship on an ongoing basis.”

Phillip Chung
Executive Director, AustLII

“The software solutions developed by the Intersect team have had a fantastic impact on our productivity: data processing which previously would have required days or weeks of laborious image file capture and cataloguing can now be completed in minutes. Images of breast cancer samples which are held by the Breast Cancer Tissue Bank can now be viewed and shared with the research community over the web. Without the expertise of the Intersect team neither of these milestones would have been realised.”

Prof Christine Clarke
Breast Cancer Research Group
Westmead Millenium Institute

"Thanks to Intersect's solution to our data management issues, we can now store and share large data files on children's physical activity and mental health with our multi-location colleagues. Previously this was a real challenge and we are very pleased with the new system."

Professor Anita Bundy
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney

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