BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH DATABASE DEVELOPMENT AND USES

摘要

Provided are methods and systems for extracting, integrating, organizing, navigating and querying a large-scale database constructed from biomedical research studies. The database provides a highly efficient and comprehensive infrastructure for performing systematic and meta-analytic queries across a large number of studies and clinical trials from different areas of biomedical research, as well as systems and methods to build and add to such a database. Active quality control steps ensure fidelity and accuracy of standardized values obtained from a range of biomedical research studies that populate the databased described herein.

主权项

1. A method of constructing a database of biomedical research information, the method comprising the steps of:
searching biomedical research information comprising a plurality of biomedical research studies; identifying a biomedical research study of interest; extracting variables of interest and values thereof from the identified biomedical research study; standardizing the values of the extracted variables of interest; and populating a computer-readable database with the standardized values of the extracted variables, thereby constructing the database of biomedical research information.