title: Harvest: a web-based biomedical data discovery and reporting application development platform.
abstract: Biomedical researchers share a common challenge of making complex data understandable and accessible. This need is increasingly acute as investigators seek opportunities for discovery amidst an exponential growth in the volume and complexity of laboratory and clinical data. To address this need, we developed Harvest, an open source framework that provides a set of modular components to aid the rapid development and deployment of custom data discovery software applications. Harvest incorporates visual representations of multidimensional data types in an intuitive, web-based interface that promotes a real-time, iterative approach to exploring complex clinical and experimental data. The Harvest architecture capitalizes on standards-based, open source technologies to address multiple functional needs critical to a research and development environment, including domain-specific data modeling, abstraction of complex data models, and a customizable web client.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA;
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Italia
authors.forename: Jeffrey W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Pennington
authors.forename: Byron
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ruth
authors.forename: Stacey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wrazien
authors.forename: Jennifer G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Loutrel
authors.forename: E Bryan
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Crenshaw
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Peter S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: White