Andrade André Q, Kreuzthaler Markus, Hastings Janna, Krestyaninova Maria, Schulz Stefan
School of Information Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012;180:569-73.
World-wide availability of biobank samples is a great desideratum for biomedical researchers. We describe the use case of biobank information retrieval that requires the semantic descriptions of biobank samples and of clinical information. In addition we sketch the foundations of an ontology for biobanks, as a basis on which distributed biobank indexing and retrieval systems can be built. We advocate that a detailed and robust representation of this kind of information improves and allows complex queries that will certainly arise to explore the full potential of biobanks.
生物样本库样本在全球范围内的可获取性是生物医学研究人员的一大迫切需求。我们描述了生物样本库信息检索的用例，这需要对生物样本库样本和临床信息进行语义描述。此外，我们概述了生物样本库本体的基础，作为构建分布式生物样本库索引和检索系统的基础。我们主张，这种信息的详细而强大的表示方式能够改进并允许进行复杂查询，而这些查询肯定会出现，以充分挖掘生物样本库的全部潜力。
