title: Organizational principles of cloud storage to support collaborative biomedical research.
abstract: This paper describes organizational guidelines and an anonymization protocol for the management of sensitive information in interdisciplinary, multi-institutional studies with multiple collaborators. This protocol is flexible, automated, and suitable for use in cloud-based projects as well as for publication of supplementary information in journal papers. A sample implementation of the anonymization protocol is illustrated for an ongoing study dealing with Automated Prediction of EXtubation readiness (APEX).
authors.forename: Lara J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Kanbar
authors.forename: Wissam
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Shalish
authors.forename: Carlos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Robles-Rubio
authors.forename: Doina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Precup
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Guilherme M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Sant'Anna
authors.forename: Robert E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Kearney
mesh_terms: D060666:Airway Extubation; D035843:Biomedical Research; D000067917:Cloud Computing