Application Development News

CBMi's Mike Italia, Alex Felmeister, Stacey Wrazien Present at AMIA Joint Summits

CBMI's Mike Italia will be presenting his abstract "Harvest: A Web-Based Biomedical Data Discovery and Reporting Application Development Platform" at the AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science on Tuesday March 19, 2013.

ABSTRACT: Biomedical researchers share a common challenge of making complex data understandable and accessible. This need is increasingly acute as investigators seek opportunities for discovery amidst an exponential growth in the volume and complexity of laboratory and clinical data. To address this need, we developed Harvest, an open source framework that provides a set of modular components to aid the rapid development and deployment of custom data discovery software applications. Harvest incorporates visual representations of multidimensional data types in an intuitive, web-based interface that promotes a real-time, iterative approach to exploring complex clinical and experimental data. The Harvest architecture capitalizes on standards-based, open source technologies to address multiple functional needs critical to a research and development environment, including domain-specific data modeling, abstraction of complex data models, and a customizable web client.

Mike will discuss the rationale behind the development of the Harvest platform and CBMi's commitment to the open source philosophy and how it positions Harvest for quick and easy adoption.

In addition, CBMi's Alex Felmeister will be presenting his poster "Research Implications of Hospital Interface Quality Assurance Policy" and Stacey Wrazien shares the latest on development of the Longitudinal Pediatric Data Resource (LPDR) for the Newborn Screening Translational Research Network (NBSTRN) in her poster session.