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Symposium of the Austrian HCI and Usability Engineering Group

USAB 2011: Information Quality in e-Health pp 53–62Cite as

Challenges Storing and Representing Biomedical Data

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The scientific achievements coming from molecular biology depend greatly on the capability of computational applications to manage and explore laboratorial results. One component that is commonly underrated is the need for proper user interfaces that allow researchers to visually explore the results and extract biological evidences.

In this paper, we review the main challenges of dealing with complex biomedical datasets, namely regarding data storing, communicating, representing and visualizing biomedical experimental data. We emphasize the need for proper human computer interaction paradigms and underlying data management architectures in order to achieve a correct interpretation of the experimental results.

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    Joel P. Arrais, Pedro Lopes & José Luís Oliveira

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Arrais, J.P., Lopes, P., Oliveira, J.L. (2011). Challenges Storing and Representing Biomedical Data. In: Holzinger, A., Simonic, KM. (eds) Information Quality in e-Health. USAB 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7058. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25364-5_6

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