title: A collaborative environment allowing clinical investigations on integrated biomedical databases.
abstract: 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.
authors: University of Stuttgart, High Performance Computing Centre, Germany.
authors: Matthias
authors: M
authors: Assel
authors: David
authors: D
authors: van de Vijver
authors: Pieter
authors: P
authors: Libin
authors: Kristof
authors: K
authors: Theys
authors: Daniel
authors: D
authors: Harezlak
authors: Breanndán
authors: B
authors: O Nualláin
authors: Piotr
authors: P
authors: Nowakowski
authors: Marian
authors: M
authors: Bubak
authors: Anne-Mieke
authors: AM
authors: Vandamme
authors: Stijn
authors: S
authors: Imbrechts
authors: Raphael
authors: R
authors: Sangeda
authors: Tao
authors: T
authors: Jiang
authors: Dineke
authors: D
authors: Frentz
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Sloot
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D035843:Biomedical Research; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019992:Databases as Topic; D004351:Drug Resistance; D015658:HIV Infections; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface