TY - JOUR
T1 - A collaborative environment allowing clinical investigations on integrated biomedical databases
AU - Assel, Matthias
AU - Van De Vijver, David
AU - Libin, Pieter
AU - Theys, Kristof
AU - Harezlak, Daniel
AU - Nualláin, Breanndán Ó
AU - Nowakowski, Piotr
AU - Bubak, Marian
AU - Vandamme, Anne Mieke
AU - Imbrechts, Stijn
AU - Sangeda, Raphael
AU - Jiang, Tao
AU - Frentz, Dineke
AU - Sloot, Peter
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - In order to perform clinical investigations on integrated biomedical data sets and to predict virological and epidemiological outcome, medical experts require an IT-based collaborative environment that provides them a user-friendly space for building and executing their complex studies and workflows on largely available and high-quality data repositories. In this paper, the authors introduce such a novel collaborative working environment a so-called virtual laboratory for clinicians and medical researchers, which allows users to interactively access and browse several biomedical research databases and re-use relevant data sets within own designed experiments. Firstly, technical details on the integration of relevant data resources into the virtual laboratory infrastructure and specifically developed user interfaces are briefly explained. The second part describes research possibilities for medical scientists including potential application fields and benefits as using the virtual laboratory functionalities for a particular exemplary study.
AB - In order to perform clinical investigations on integrated biomedical data sets and to predict virological and epidemiological outcome, medical experts require an IT-based collaborative environment that provides them a user-friendly space for building and executing their complex studies and workflows on largely available and high-quality data repositories. In this paper, the authors introduce such a novel collaborative working environment a so-called virtual laboratory for clinicians and medical researchers, which allows users to interactively access and browse several biomedical research databases and re-use relevant data sets within own designed experiments. Firstly, technical details on the integration of relevant data resources into the virtual laboratory infrastructure and specifically developed user interfaces are briefly explained. The second part describes research possibilities for medical scientists including potential application fields and benefits as using the virtual laboratory functionalities for a particular exemplary study.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349571600&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-027-8-51
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-027-8-51
M3 - Conference article
C2 - 19593044
AN - SCOPUS:70349571600
SN - 0926-9630
VL - 147
SP - 51
EP - 61
JO - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
JF - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
T2 - 7th Annual HealthGrid Conference: Healthgrid Research, Innovation and Business Case, HealthGrid 2009
Y2 - 29 June 2009 through 1 July 2009
ER -