TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mate, Sebastian
AU  - Vormstein, Patric Daniel
AU  - Kadioglu, Dennis
AU  - Majeed, Raphael W
AU  - Lablans, Martin
AU  - Prokosch, Hans-Ulrich
AU  - Storf, Holger
TI  - On-The-Fly Query Translation Between i2b2 and Samply in the German Biobank Node (GBN) Prototypes.
JO  - Studies in health technology and informatics
VL  - 243
SN  - 0926-9630
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - IOS Press
M1  - DKFZ-2022-01984
SP  - 42-46
PY  - 2017
N1  - POF Topic: 317
AB  - Information retrieval is a major challenge in medical informatics. Various research projects have worked on this task in recent years on an institutional level by developing tools to integrate and retrieve information. However, when it comes down to querying such data across institutions, the challenge persists due to the high heterogeneity of data and differences in software systems. The German Biobank Node (GBN) project faced this challenge when trying to interconnect four biobanks to enable distributed queries for biospecimens. All biobanks had already established integrated data repositories, and some of them were already part of research networks. Instead of developing another software platform, GBN decided to form a bridge between these. This paper describes and discusses a core component from the GBN project, the OmniQuery library, which was implemented to enable on-the-fly query translation between heterogeneous research infrastructures.
KW  - Biological Specimen Banks
KW  - Information Storage and Retrieval
KW  - Software
KW  - Data harmonization (Other)
KW  - biobanking (Other)
KW  - federated search (Other)
KW  - interoperability (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:28883167
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/181416
ER  -