Querying semantic catalogues of biomedical databases.

Journal: Journal of biomedical informatics
Published Date:

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Secondary use of health data is a valuable source of knowledge that boosts observational studies, leading to important discoveries in the medical and biomedical sciences. The fundamental guiding principle for performing a successful observational study is the research question and the approach in advance of executing a study. However, in multi-centre studies, finding suitable datasets to support the study is challenging, time-consuming, and sometimes impossible without a deep understanding of each dataset.

Authors

  • Arnaldo Pereira
    DETI/IEETA, LASI, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. Electronic address: arnaldop@ua.pt.
  • João Rafael Almeida
    DETI/IEETA, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
  • Rui Pedro Lopes
    CeDRI, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal. Electronic address: rlopes@ipb.pt.
  • José Luís Oliveira
    Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics (DETI) IEETA - Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA) University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.