TY - JOUR AU - Corradi, Luca AU - Porro, Ivan AU - Schenone, Andrea AU - Momeni, Parastoo AU - Ferrari, Raffaele AU - Nobili, Flavio AU - Ferrara, Michela AU - Arnulfo, Gabriele AU - Fato, Marco M. PY - 2012 DA - 2012/10/08 TI - A repository based on a dynamically extensible data model supporting multidisciplinary research in neuroscience JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 115 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - Robust, extensible and distributed databases integrating clinical, imaging and molecular data represent a substantial challenge for modern neuroscience. It is even more difficult to provide extensible software environments able to effectively target the rapidly changing data requirements and structures of research experiments. There is an increasing request from the neuroscience community for software tools addressing technical challenges about: (i) supporting researchers in the medical field to carry out data analysis using integrated bioinformatics services and tools; (ii) handling multimodal/multiscale data and metadata, enabling the injection of several different data types according to structured schemas; (iii) providing high extensibility, in order to address different requirements deriving from a large variety of applications simply through a user runtime configuration. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-12-115 DO - 10.1186/1472-6947-12-115 ID - Corradi2012 ER -