R engine cell: integrating R into the i2b2 software infrastructure.
Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) is an initiative funded by the NIH that aims at building an informatics infrastructure to support biomedical research. The University of Pavia has recently integrated i2b2 infrastructure with a registry of inherited arrhythmogenic diseases. Within this project, the authors created a novel i2b2 cell, named R Engine Cell, which allows the communication between i2b2 and the R statistical software. As survival analyses are routinely performed by cardiology researchers, the authors have first concentrated on making Kaplan-Meier analyses available within the i2b2 web interface. To this aim, the authors developed a web-client plug-in to select the patient set on which to perform the analysis and to display the results in a graphical, intuitive way. R Engine Cell has been designed to easily support the integration of other R-based statistical analyses into i2b2.
IRCCS Fondazione S. Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.
Daniele
D
Segagni
Fulvia
F
Ferrazzi
Cristiana
C
Larizza
Valentina
V
Tibollo
Carlo
C
Napolitano
Silvia G
SG
Priori
Riccardo
R
Bellazzi
D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000453:epidemiology; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003199:Computer Systems; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D007558:Italy; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D012042:Registries; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface
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