Inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] has a multifactorial origin and originates from a complex
interplay of environmental factors with the innate immune system at the intestinal epithelial …

Units are basic scientific tools that render meaning to numerical data. Their standardization
and formalization caters for the report, exchange, process, reproducibility and integration of …

Cancer omics data are exponentially created and associated with clinical variables, and
important findings can be extracted based on bioinformatics approaches which can then be …

Rapid advancements in high-throughput omics technologies and experimental protocols
have led to the generation of vast amounts of scale-specific biomolecular data on cancer …

Personalised evidence-based-medicine aims to use stored health data to prevent future
illnesses. This implies that data should be stored in a readable and understandable form, at …

Purpose With the increasing spread of ontologies in various domains, units have gradually
become an essential part of ontologies and units ontologies have been developed to offer a …

RDF has become the standard technology for enabling interoperability among
heterogeneous biomedical databases. The NCBI provides access to a large set of life …

Sustainability of project output and especially of the maintenance and further development
of software is of growing concern for the research community. In the personalized medicine …

Genomics has made enormous progress in the twelve years since the publication of the first
draft human genome sequence, but it has not yet been translated into the clinic. Despite …

The implementation of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) solutions is an important
prerequisite for reducing the knowledge gap between clinical research and practice …