Open AccessDevelopment of an Integrated Biospecimen Database among the Regional Biobanks in Korea
Author(s) -
Hyun-Sang Park,
Hune Cho,
Hwa Sun Kim
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
healthcare informatics research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.684
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2093-369X
pISSN - 2093-3681
DOI - 10.4258/hir.2016.22.2.129
Subject(s) - biobank , computer science , information retrieval , metadata , identifier , table (database) , column (typography) , database , raw data , snomed ct , systematized nomenclature of medicine , terminology , data mining , set (abstract data type) , bioinformatics , world wide web , telecommunications , linguistics , philosophy , frame (networking) , biology , programming language
This study developed an integrated database for 15 regional biobanks that provides large quantities of high-quality bio-data to researchers to be used for the prevention of disease, for the development of personalized medicines, and in genetics studies.