Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA ; VA Connecticut Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs West Haven, CT, USA ; Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA.
Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA.
Front Neuroinform. 2014 May 28;8:58. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00058. eCollection 2014.
This paper describes how DISCO, the data aggregator that supports the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), has been extended to play a central role in automating the complex workflow required to support and coordinate the NIF's data integration capabilities. The NIF is an NIH Neuroscience Blueprint initiative designed to help researchers access the wealth of data related to the neurosciences available via the Internet. A central component is the NIF Federation, a searchable database that currently contains data from 231 data and information resources regularly harvested, updated, and warehoused in the DISCO system. In the past several years, DISCO has greatly extended its functionality and has evolved to play a central role in automating the complex, ongoing process of harvesting, validating, integrating, and displaying neuroscience data from a growing set of participating resources. This paper provides an overview of DISCO's current capabilities and discusses a number of the challenges and future directions related to the process of coordinating the integration of neuroscience data within the NIF Federation.
本文介绍了数据聚合器 DISCO 是如何扩展其功能,以在支持和协调神经信息框架(NIF)的数据集成功能所需的复杂工作流程中发挥核心作用的。NIF 是美国国立卫生研究院神经科学蓝图倡议的一部分,旨在帮助研究人员通过互联网访问与神经科学相关的大量数据。其核心组件是 NIF 联合会,这是一个可搜索的数据库,目前包含来自 231 个定期采集、更新和存储在 DISCO 系统中的数据和信息资源的数据。在过去的几年中,DISCO 极大地扩展了其功能,并发展成为自动化从不断增加的参与资源中采集、验证、集成和显示神经科学数据这一复杂、持续过程的核心。本文概述了 DISCO 的当前功能,并讨论了在协调 NIF 联合会内的神经科学数据集成过程中所面临的一些挑战和未来方向。