META-pipe Authorization service

Inge Alexander Raknes; Lars Ailo Bongo

doi:10.12688/f1000research.13256.2

META-pipe Authorization service

F1000Res. 2018 Jan 9:7:ELIXIR-32. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.13256.2. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Inge Alexander Raknes¹, Lars Ailo Bongo²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, 9037, Norway.
² Department of Computer Science, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, 9037, Norway.

Abstract

We describe the design, implementation, and use of the META-pipe Authorization service. META-pipe is a complete workflow for the analysis of marine metagenomics data. We will provide META-pipe as a web based data analysis service for ELIXIR users. We have integrated our Authorization service with the ELIXIR Authorization and Authentication Infrastructure (AAI) that allows single sign-on to services across the ELIXIR infrastructure. We use the Authorization service to authorize access to data on the META-pipe storage system and jobs in the META-pipe job queue. Our Authorization server was among the first SAML2 service providers that integrated with ELIXIR AAI. The code is open source at: https://gitlab.com/uit-sfb/AuthService2.

Keywords: Authentication; Authorization; ELIXIR AAI; OAuth 2.0; SAML.

Grants and funding

Funding was provided from ELIXIR and ELIXIR-Norway. ELIXIR received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (ELIXIR- EXCELERATE, grant agreement 676559). ELIXIR-Norway is funded by the Research Council of Norway through the ELIXIR.NO project (grant number 208481).