Linked Registries: Connecting Rare Diseases Patient Registries through a Semantic Web Layer.

ABSTRACT: Patient registries are an essential tool to increase current knowledge regarding rare diseases. Understanding these data is a vital step to improve patient treatments and to create the most adequate tools for personalized medicine. However, the growing number of disease-specific patient registries brings also new technical challenges. Usually, these systems are developed as closed data silos, with independent formats and models, lacking comprehensive mechanisms to enable data sharing. To tackle these challenges, we developed a Semantic Web based solution that allows connecting distributed and heterogeneous registries, enabling the federation of knowledge between multiple independent environments. This semantic layer creates a holistic view over a set of anonymised registries, supporting se

SUBMITTER: Sernadela P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5682045 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature