An ICT infrastructure to integrate clinical and molecular data in oncology research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The ONCO-i2b2 platform is a bioinformatics tool designed to integrate clinical and research data and support translational research in oncology. It is implemented by the University of Pavia and the IRCCS Fondazione Maugeri hospital (FSM), and grounded on the software developed by the Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) research center. I2b2 has delivered an open source suite based on a data warehouse, which is efficiently interrogated to find sets of interesting patients through a query tool interface.

Methods

Onco-i2b2 integrates data coming from multiple sources and allows the users to jointly query them. I2b2 data are then stored in a data warehouse, where facts are hierarchically structured as ontologies. Onco-i2b2 gathers data from the

SUBMITTER: Segagni D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3303735 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature