BioPortal: Sharing and Analyzing Infectious Disease Information

摘要

Infectious disease informatics (IDI) is an emerging field of study that systematically examines information management and analysis issues related to infectious disease prevention, detection, and management. IDI research is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing expertise from a number of fields including but not limited to various branches of information technologies such as data integration, data security, GIS, digital library, data mining and visualization, and other fields such as biostatistics and bioinformatics. Funded by the NSF through its Digital Government and Information Technology Research programs with support from the Intelligence Technology Innovation Center, we have been developing scalable technologies and related standards and protocols, implemented in the BioPortal system, to deal with various data sharing and analysis challenges arising in the field of IDI.