Biomedical Research and Integrated Biobanking: An Innovative Paradigm for Heterogeneous Data Management

• Main Author: Izzo, Massimiliano (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Database management.; Bioinformatics.; Biomedical engineering.; Biomedical Engineering.; Database Management.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.

This doctoral thesis reports on an innovative data repository offering adaptive metadata management to maximise information sharing and comprehension in multidisciplinary and geographically distributed collaborations. It approaches metadata as a fluid, loosely structured and dynamical process rather...

Table of Contents:

• Background
• Motivation and State of the Art
• The JSON-based Data Model
• Results: the Integrated Biobanking Use Case
• Results: XTENS 2, a JSON-Compliant Repository
• Discussion
• Conclusions.