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- Title
Harvest: an open platform for developing web-based biomedical data discovery and reporting applications.
- Authors
Pennington, Jeffrey W.; Ruth, Byron; Italia, Michael J.; Miller, Jeffrey; Wrazien, Stacey; Loutrel, Jennifer G.; Crenshaw, E. Bryan; White, Peter S.
- Abstract
Biomedical researchers share a common challenge of making complex data understandable and accessible as they seek inherent relationships between attributes in disparate data types. Data discovery in this context is limited by a lack of query systems that efficiently show relationships between individual variables, but without the need to navigate underlying data models. We have addressed this need by developing Harvest, an open-source framework of modular components, and using it for the rapid development and deployment of custom data discovery software applications. Harvest incorporates visualizations of highly dimensional data in a web-based interface that promotes rapid exploration and export of any type of biomedical information, without exposing researchers to underlying data models. We evaluated Harvest with two cases: clinical data from pediatric cardiology and demonstration data from the OpenMRS project. Harvest's architecture and public open-source code offer a set of rapid application development tools to build data discovery applications for domain-specific biomedical data repositories. All resources, including the OpenMRS demonstration, can be found at http://harvest.research.chop.edu
- Subjects
OPEN source software; MEDICAL research; BUSINESS intelligence; PEDIATRIC cardiology; MEDICAL coding; COMPUTER software
- Publication
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2014, Vol 21, Issue 2, p379
- ISSN
1067-5027
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001825