A semantic grid infrastructure enabling integrated access and analysis of multilevel biomedical data in support of postgenomic clinical trials on cancer

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 205-217

  Tsiknakis, Manolis ^a   Brochhausen, Mathias ^b   Nabrzyski, Jarek ^c   Pucacki, Juliusz ^c   Sfakianakis, Stelios G ^a   Potamias, George ^a   Desmedt, Cristone ^d   Kafetzopoulos, Dimitris ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c POZNAN SUPERCOMPUTING AND NETWORKING CENTER   (Poland)

^d JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomedical grid; Biomedical Grid; Cancer; Metadata; Ontology; Post genomic clinical trials; Postgenomic clinical trials; Semantic integration of heterogeneous biomedical databases

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GRID COMPUTING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; METADATA; ONCOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; MULTILEVEL BIOMEDICAL DATA; SEMANTIC GRID INFRASTRUCTURE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COOPERATION; DATA BASE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41549120240     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2007.903519     Document Type: Article

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