The human physiome: How standards, software and innovative service infrastructures are providing the building blocks to make it achievable

Interface Focus

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Nickerson, David ^a   Atalag, Koray ^a,b   Bono, Bernard De ^a,c   Geiger, Jörg ^d   Goble, Carole ^e   Hollmann, Susanne ^f   Lonien, Joachim ^g   Müller, Wolfgang ^h   Regierer, Babette ⁱ   Stanford, Natalie J ^e   Golebiewski, Martin ^h   Hunter, Peter ^a,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^g DIN Deutsches Institut fur Normung   (Germany)

^h HEIDELBERG INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES   (Germany)

ⁱ LIFEGLIMMER GMBH   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Human Physiome; Managing big data; Repositories; Reproducible science; Service infrastructure; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958818647     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2015.0103     Document Type: Article

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