A semantic cloud infrastructure for data-intensive medical research. (2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kaniovskyi, Yuriy; Benkner, Siegfried; Borckholder, Chris; Wood, Steven; Nowakowski, Piotr; Saglimbeni, Alfredo; Lobo, Tomas Pariente
• Is Part Of: International journal of big data intelligence. Volume 2:Number 2(2015)
• Page Start: 91
• Page End: 105
• Publication Date: 2015
• Subjects: biomedical data infrastructure -- secure data integration -- secure data management -- semantic web technologies -- virtual physiological human initiative -- VPH-I -- web service composition -- cloud computing -- semantic search -- semantic exploration -- web services -- semantic cloud infrastructure -- data intensive research -- medical research -- data security -- physiological processes -- human body -- anatomical structure -- biophysical mechanisms -- semantic annotation -- cloud computing; Big data -- Periodicals; 005.705
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2053-1389

Abstract

The European virtual physiological human initiative develops a platform, called VPH-Share, for understanding physiological processes in the human body in terms of anatomical structure and biophysical mechanisms. Besides storing, sharing, integrating and linking a wide variety of heterogeneous bio-medical datasets relevant to the VPH community, the project envisions the facilitation of a secure data infrastructure, as well as search and exploration facilities based on semantic technologies. The data infrastructure and management platform are built on top of a hybrid cloud environment. The data management platform offers tools that cover the whole life-cycle of datasets including integration, selection, semantic annotation and publishing datasets as a service. A comprehensive user interface enables end-users to search and to explore bio-medical data with support of semantic technologies, concealing the complexity of the underlying service environment. In this paper we describe the data infrastructure that has emerged in context of the project.