Project Tycho 2.0: a repository to improve the integration and reuse of data for global population health.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In 2013, we released Project Tycho, an open-access database comprising 3.6 million counts of infectious disease cases and deaths reported for over a century by public health surveillance in the United States. Our objective is to describe how Project Tycho version 1 (v1) data has been used to create new knowledge and technology and to present improvements made in the newly released version 2.0 (v2).

Materials and methods

We analyzed our user database and conducted online searches to analyze the use of Project Tycho v1 data. For v2, we added new US data and dengue data for other countries, and grouped data into 360 datasets, each with a digital object identifier and rich metadata. In addition, we used standard vocabularies to encode data where possible, improving com

SUBMITTER: van Panhuis WG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6289551 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature