A Framework for XML-based Integration of Data, Visualization and Analysis in a Biomedical Domain

Bales, Nathan and Brinkley, James F and Lee, E. Sally and Mathur, Shobhit and Re, Chris and Suciu, Dan (2005) A Framework for XML-based Integration of Data, Visualization and Analysis in a Biomedical Domain. In Proceedings, XSym 2005, pages pp. 207-221, Trondheim, Norway.

Abstract

Biomedical data are becoming increasingly complex and heterogeneous in nature. The data are stored in distributed information systems, using a variety of data models, and are processed by increasingly more complex tools that analyze and visualize them. We present in this paper our framework for integrating biomedical research data and tools into a unique Web front end. Our framework is applied to the University of Washington’s Human Brain Project. Specifically, we present solutions to four integration tasks: definition of complex mappings from relational sources to XML, distributed XQuery processing, generation of heterogeneous output formats, and the integration of heterogeneous data visualization and analysis tools.