Ontology-driven mapping of temporal data in biomedical databases

Biomedical databases contain considerable amounts of time-oriented data, which are not typically in a format suitable for querying complex temporal patterns. We address this problem in implementing Synchronus, a tool for ontology-driven mapping of data from an existing relational database to a datab...

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Published inAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings Vol. 2006; p. 1045
Main Authors Narayanan, Preetha S, O'Connor, Martin J, Das, Amar K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Medical Informatics Association 2006
Subjects
Algorithms
Databases as Topic
Medical Informatics
Software
Time
Vocabulary, Controlled
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ISSN1942-597X
1559-4076

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Summary:Biomedical databases contain considerable amounts of time-oriented data, which are not typically in a format suitable for querying complex temporal patterns. We address this problem in implementing Synchronus, a tool for ontology-driven mapping of data from an existing relational database to a database schema with a uniform temporal representation. We discuss the design of Synchronus, which consists of a schema-mapping ontology and a data-mapping algorithm that together provide general capabilities for database transformation.
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ISSN:1942-597X
1559-4076