LATTICE: A federation solution scalable to UK research linking technical capability and information governance

This white paper outlines LATTICE, a proposed federation solution that the Crick has developed to enable Trusted Research Environments (TRES) and Secure Data Environments (SDEs) / Safe Havens to federate. It provides a solution to bring together data from different Data Zone curators (SDEs / Safe havens / Bespoke sets), matched to a single approach to Information Governance. This design has been shared with the UK research community through multiple channels, and which has gained traction as the target for the NHS OneLondon SN-SDE and other external environments. LATTICE is built to operate at scale, and is designed to pragmatically integrate existing investments.

The LATTICE platform integrates a small set of hyperscale, enterprise solutions to provide a tailorable, repeatable and secure fabric for projects to quickly convert approved projects into scientific outputs and societal gain. Delivering the fastest (and speeding up) “time to research” is a unique selling point and one that offers £100m in value for money returns.