A collaborative environment allowing clinical investigations on integrated biomedical databases.
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.
Assel
Matthias
M
University of Stuttgart, High Performance Computing Centre, Germany.
van de Vijver
David
D
Libin
Pieter
P
Theys
Kristof
K
Harezlak
Daniel
D
O Nualláin
Breanndán
B
Nowakowski
Piotr
P
Bubak
Marian
M
Vandamme
Anne-Mieke
AM
Imbrechts
Stijn
S
Sangeda
Raphael
R
Jiang
Tao
T
Frentz
Dineke
D
Sloot
Peter
P
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