Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Integration Platform for Heterogeneous Data in PSG

描述(申请人提供)：Pro-Tech Services，Inc.计划开发一个创新的开放软件框架，用于配置、部署和发现生物医学研究的异类数据共享社区，其第一个应用是睡眠医学/多导睡眠图(PSG)社区。 BioMed-P2P对等数据共享技术允许任何连接到Internet的生物医学研究人员仅使用他们的网络浏览器和SBIR开发的Bied-P2P客户端软件就可以共享数据资源和搜索其他资源。该框架使灵活的描述性元数据(描述内容的信息)能够层叠在分布在现有对等网络(例如Gnutella Open P2P平台)上的生物医学数据文件之上，并且可用于共享各种不同种类的生物医学资源。拟议项目的第一阶段将侧重于实施基于分布式计算模式的独立于平台的BIOMED-P2P数据共享框架的可行性，在该模型中，生物医学研究人员直接共享计算机资源和交换服务，而不需要中央数据存储站点。BioMed-P2P将允许生物医学研究人员为他们共享的数据文件类型定义模板或模式，并促进网络社区内的模式共享，就像任何其他文件一样。这将允许使用新的数据文件类型和新的模式来扩展对等网络，而无需任何集中的服务器或机构。此外，由于Bied-P2P计划使用XML来描述共享对象，这将允许共享任何类型的网络可访问文件，如PSG研究、评分结果文件、PSG报告、图像和文本。第二阶段将完成设计工作，并产生先进的原型和软件工具，完全集成到睡眠实验室现有的睡眠诊断PSG产品中。第二阶段还将完成软件模块的设计和实施，这些模块将把Bimed-P2P的使用扩展到其他生物医学研究领域，如癫痫研究、神经科学、人类基因组计划等。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Pro-Tech Services, Inc. proposes to develop an innovative open software framework for configuring, deploying and discovering heterogeneous data-sharing communities for biomedical research, with the sleep medicine/Polysomnography (PSG) community as its first application. Biomed-P2P peer-to-peer data-sharing technology allows any biomedical researcher connected to the Internet to share a data resource and search for other resources using only their web-browser and the SBIR developed Biomed-P2P client software. This framework enables flexible, descriptive metadata (information describing the content) to layer on top of the biomedical data files that are distributed on existing peer-to-peer networks (such as the Gnutella Open P2P platform), and can be used to share a variety of heterogeneous biomedical resources. Phase I of the proposed project will focus on the feasibility of implementing a platform-independent Biomed- P2P data sharing framework based on a distributed computing model in which biomedical researchers share computer resources and exchange services directly, without a centralized data storage site. Biomed-P2P will let biomedical researchers define templates or schemas for the type of data files they are sharing and facilitate sharing the schema within the network community just like any other file. This will allow the expansion of peer-to-peer networks with new data file types and new schemas without any centralized server or authority. Furthermore, since Biomed-P2P plans to use XML to describe the shared objects, this will allow sharing any kind of network accessible files such as PSG studies, scoring results files, PSG reports, images and text. Phase II will complete the design work and result in advanced prototypes and software tools that fully integrate into a sleep laboratory's existing sleep diagnostic PSG products. Phase II will also finish the design and implementation of software modules that will expand usage of the Biomed-P2P to other biomedical research fields such as Epilepsy research, Neuroscience, Human Genome project and others.