An Overview of the Challenges in Designing, Integrating, and Delivering BARD: A Public Chemical-Biology Resource and Query Portal for Multiple Organizations, Locations, and Disciplines
| Autor: | Eric S. Dawson, Anna Waller, Mark R. Southern, Thomas D.Y. Chung, Jeremy J. Yang, Stephan C. Schürer, Tudor I. Oprea, Noel Southall, Steve Brudz, David L. Lahr, Andrea de Souza, Rajarshi Guha, Simon Chatwin, Paul A. Clemons, Joshua A. Bittker, Uma D. Vempati |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Drug Industry
Computer science Chemistry Pharmaceutical Ontology (information science) Bioinformatics Biochemistry Article Analytical Chemistry Access to Information Small Molecule Libraries Resource (project management) Software Drug Discovery Functional specification Hierarchy Internet Data collection business.industry Data Collection Data science United States National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Informatics Molecular Medicine The Internet business Databases Chemical Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of biomolecular screening. 19(5) |
| ISSN: | 1552-454X |
| Popis: | Recent industry–academic partnerships involve collaboration among disciplines, locations, and organizations using publicly funded “open-access” and proprietary commercial data sources. These require the effective integration of chemical and biological information from diverse data sources, which presents key informatics, personnel, and organizational challenges. The BioAssay Research Database (BARD) was conceived to address these challenges and serve as a community-wide resource and intuitive web portal for public-sector chemical-biology data. Its initial focus is to enable scientists to more effectively use the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Molecular Libraries Program (MLP) data generated from the 3-year pilot and 6-year production phases of the Molecular Libraries Probe Production Centers Network (MLPCN), which is currently in its final year. BARD evolves the current data standards through structured assay and result annotations that leverage BioAssay Ontology and other industry-standard ontologies, and a core hierarchy of assay definition terms and data standards defined specifically for small-molecule assay data. We initially focused on migrating the highest-value MLP data into BARD and bringing it up to this new standard. We review the technical and organizational challenges overcome by the interdisciplinary BARD team, veterans of public- and private-sector data-integration projects, who are collaborating to describe (functional specifications), design (technical specifications), and implement this next-generation software solution. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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