title: The ESID Online Database network.
abstract: Primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) belong to the group of rare diseases. The European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID), is establishing an innovative European patient and research database network for continuous long-term documentation of patients, in order to improve the diagnosis, classification, prognosis and therapy of PIDs. The ESID Online Database is a web-based system aimed at data storage, data entry, reporting and the import of pre-existing data sources in an enterprise business-to-business integration (B2B). The online database is based on Java 2 Enterprise System (J2EE) with high-standard security features, which comply with data protection laws and the demands of a modern research platform.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The ESID Online Database is accessible via the official website (http://www.esid.org/).
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Guzman
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Veit
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Knerr
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kindle
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gathmann
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Eades-Perner
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Grimbacher
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D014584:User-Computer Interface