Requirements for data integration platforms in biomedical research networks: A reference model
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- Subject Areas
- Bioinformatics, Computational Science
- Keywords
- research network, reference model, data integration, biomedical informatics, service-oriented architecture
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- © 2014 Ganzinger et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2014. Requirements for data integration platforms in biomedical research networks: A reference model. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e689v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.689v1
Abstract
Biomedical research networks need to integrate research data among their members and with external partners. To support such data sharing activities, adequate information technology infrastructure is necessary. To facilitate the establishments of such an infrastructure, we developed a reference model for requirements. The reference model consists of five reference goals and 15 reference requirements. Using the Unified Modeling Language, the goals and requirements are set into relation to each other. In addition, all goals and requirements are described textually in tables. This reference model can be used by research networks as a basis for the resource efficient acquisition of their project specific requirements. Further, a concrete instance of the reference model is described for a research network on liver cancer. The reference model is transferred into a requirements model of the specific network. Based on this concrete requirements model, a service-oriented information technology architecture is derived and also described in this paper.
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