Extending the NIF DISCO framework to automate complex workflow: Coordinating the harvest and integration of data from diverse neuroscience information resources

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Marenco, Luis N ^a,b   Wang, Rixin ^a   Bandrowski, Anita E ^c   Grethe, Jeffrey S ^c   Shepherd, Gordon M ^a   Miller, Perry L ^a,b,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical informatics; Data integration; Database federation; Database interoperation; Neuroinformatics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEM; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84901653657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00058     Document Type: Article

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