Rahm, E. ; Kirsten, T. ; Lange, J.

The GeWare data warehouse platform for the analysis of molecular-biological and clinical data

Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 4(1):47, 2007

2007 / 01

Paper

Abstract

We introduce the GeWare data warehouse platform for the integrated analysis of clinical information, microarray data and annotations within large biomedical research studies. Clinical data is obtained from a commercial study management system while publicly available data is integrated using a mediator approach. The platform utilizes a generic approach to manage different types of annotations. We outline the overall architecture of the platform, its implementation as well as the main processing and analysis workflows.