Penn Medicine Biobank Informatics OBI Influenced Software Design
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We present a use case of the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations [1] (OBI) informing the software design of a suite of biobanking applications. We describe how OBI has influenced the design of the Penn Medicine BioBank applications that support the collection, processing, and storage of biobank specimens and our work in creating a robust search system over data produced by BioBank applications and other sources. We show that applications that have been designed with the tenets of OBI in mind, particularly those of being reality based and modeling events as OBI style processes, have proven to effectively express richly interconnected data and be easily extendable. Keywords— BFO; Biobanking; OBI; Ontology; Process; Search; Software Design
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تاریخ انتشار 2014