Paper Info
Title
Extending the NIF DISCO framework to automate complex workflow: coordinating the harvest and integration of data from diverse neuroscience information resources.
Abstract
This paper describes how DISCO, the data aggregator that supports the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), has been extended to play a central role in automating the complex workflow required to support and coordinate the NI F's data integration capabilities. The NIF is an NIH Neuroscience Blueprint initiative designed to help researchers access the wealth of data related to the neurosciences available via the Internet. A central component is the NIF Federation, a searchable database that currently contains data from 231 data and information resources regularly harvested, updated, and warehoused in the DISCO system. In the past several years, DISCO has greatly extended its functionality and has evolved to play a central role in automating the complex, ongoing process of harvesting, validating, integrating, and displaying neuroscience data from a growing set of participating resources. This paper provides an overview of DISCO's current capabilities and discusses a number of the challenges and future directions related to the process of coordinating the integration of neuroscience data within the NIF Federation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3389/fninf.2014.00058
FRONTIERS IN NEUROINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
data integration,database federation,database interoperation,neuroinformatics,biomedical,informatics
Data science,Data integration,Neuroscience Information Framework,Data mining,Neuroinformatics,Neuroscience,Computer science,Blueprint,Health informatics,Workflow,Data aggregator,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
8
6
0.67
References 
Authors
10
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luis N. Marenco117233.85
Rixin Wang2507.09
Anita Bandrowski3718.00
Jeffrey S. Grethe433033.51
G M Shepherd550873.75
P L Miller644593.86