title: Architecture of a federated query engine for heterogeneous resources.
abstract: The Federated Utah Research and Translational Health e-Repository (FURTHeR) is a Utah statewide informatics platform for the new Center for Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Utah. We have been working on one of FURTHeR's key components, a federated query engine for heterogeneous resources, that we believe has the potential to meet some of the fundamental needs of translational science to access and integrate diverse biomedical data and promote discovery of new knowledge. The architecture of the federated query engine for heterogeneous resources is described and demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: Health Sciences Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Richard L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Bradshaw
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matney
authors.forename: Oren E
authors.initials: OE
authors.lastname: Livne
authors.forename: Bruce E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Bray
authors.forename: Joyce A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.forename: Scott P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Narus
mesh_terms: D048088:Informatics; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007256:Information Systems; D057386:Search Engine; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical; D014589:Utah