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WRI and SCBT to Standardize Data Warehouse

May 26, 2006

NEW YORK, May 26 (GenomeWeb News) - Windber Research Institute and the Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology will jointly develop data-integration, -visualization, and -mining technologies for translational medicine research, WRI said today.

 

The WRI Biomedical Informatics team, headed by Hai Hu, will work closely with the SCBIT, headed by Yixue Li.

 

WRI is currently involved in clinical studies and clinical trials with Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the Clinical Breast Care Program. Currently, more than 20,000 highly annotated and qualified breast disease samples with more than 500 data fields on each patient are integrated with molecular and imaging data in an Oracle-based data warehouse.

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