Data and knowledge management in translational research: implementation of the eTRIKS platform for the IMI OncoTrack consortium.
Wei GuReha YildirimmanEmmanuel Van der StuyftDenny VerbeeckSascha HerzingerVenkata SatagopamAdriano Barbosa-SilvaReinhard SchneiderBodo LangeHans LehrachYike GuoDavid HendersonAnthony Rowenull nullPublished in: BMC bioinformatics (2019)
In all these steps, data mapping, linking and preparation are handled automatically by the tranSMART integration platform. Therefore, researchers without specialist data handling skills can focus directly on the scientific questions, without spending undue effort on processing the data and data integration, which are otherwise a burden and the most time-consuming part of translational research data analysis.