Title :
WSRF-Based Modeling of Clinical Trial Information for Collaborative Cancer Research
Author :
Zang, Tianyi ; Calinescu, Radu ; Harris, Steve ; Tsui, Andrew ; Kwiatkowska, Marta ; Gibbons, Jeremy ; Davies, Jim ; Maccallum, Peter ; Caldas, Carlos
Author_Institution :
Comput. Lab., Univ. of Oxford, Oxford
Abstract :
The CancerGrid consortium is developing open- standards cancer informatics to address the challenges posed by modern cancer clinical trials. This paper presents the service-oriented software paradigm implemented in CancerGrid to derive clinical trial information management systems for collaborative cancer research across multiple institutions. Our proposal is founded on a combination of a clinical trial (meta)model and WSRF (Web Services Resource Framework), and is currently being evaluated for use in early phase trials. Although primarily targeted at cancer research, our approach is readily applicable to other areas for which a similar information model is available.
Keywords :
cancer; medical information systems; CancerGrid; WSRF-based modeling; Web Services Resource Framework; clinical trial information management systems; clinical trial metamodel; collaborative cancer research; open-standards cancer informatics; service-oriented software paradigm; Biomedical informatics; Cancer; Clinical trials; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Computer architecture; Grid computing; Laboratories; Protocols; Web services; Grid computing; Z specification; service-oriented architecture; web services resource framework;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2008. CCGRID '08. 8th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3156-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3156-4
DOI :
10.1109/CCGRID.2008.57
