Oliveira I C, Oliveira J L, Sanchez J P, López-Alonso V, Martin-Sanchez F, Maojo V, Sousa Pereira A
Universidade de Aveiro (IEETA), Campus Universitário de Santiago, P3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
Methods Inf Med. 2005;44(2):161-7.
The goal of this paper is to identify how Grid technology can be applied for the development and deployment of integration systems, bringing together distributed and heterogeneous biomedical information sources for medical applications.
The integration of new genetic and medical knowledge in clinical workflows requires the development of new paradigms for information management in which the ability to access and relate disparate data sources is essential. We adopt a requirements perspective based on the user needs we have identified in the development of the INFOGENMED system to assess current Grid technology against those requirements.
The gap between Grid features and distributed biomedical information integration needs is characterized. Results from prospective studies are also reported.
Grid infrastructures offer advanced features for the deployment of collaborative computational environments across virtual organizations. New Grid developments are in line with the problem of multiple site information integration. From the INFOGENMED point of view, Grid infrastructures need to evolve to implement structured data access services and semantic content description and discovery.
本文的目标是确定网格技术如何应用于集成系统的开发与部署，将分布式和异构的生物医学信息源整合起来用于医学应用。
在临床工作流程中整合新的基因和医学知识需要开发新的信息管理范式，其中访问和关联不同数据源的能力至关重要。我们基于在INFOGENMED系统开发过程中确定的用户需求，采用需求视角来根据这些需求评估当前的网格技术。
刻画了网格功能与分布式生物医学信息集成需求之间的差距。还报告了前瞻性研究的结果。
网格基础设施为跨虚拟组织部署协作计算环境提供了先进功能。新的网格开发与多站点信息集成问题相符。从INFOGENMED的角度来看，网格基础设施需要发展以实现结构化数据访问服务以及语义内容描述和发现。
