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

描述（由申请人提供）：Pro-Tech Services，Inc.建议开发一个创新的开放式软件框架，用于配置，部署和发现生物医学研究的异构数据共享社区，睡眠医学/多导睡眠图（PSG）社区作为其第一个应用程序。 Biomed-P2P对等数据共享技术允许任何连接到互联网的生物医学研究人员共享数据资源，并仅使用他们的Web浏览器和SBIR开发的Biomed-P2P客户端软件搜索其他资源。该框架使灵活的，描述性的元数据（描述内容的信息）层上的生物医学数据文件，分布在现有的对等网络（如Gnutella开放P2P平台），并可用于共享各种异构的生物医学资源。拟议项目的第一阶段将侧重于实施一个独立于平台的Biomed-P2P数据共享框架的可行性，该框架基于分布式计算模型，生物医学研究人员直接共享计算机资源和交换服务，而无需集中的数据存储站点。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，并促进在网络社区中共享模式，就像任何其他文件一样。这将允许扩展具有新数据文件类型和新模式的对等网络，而无需任何集中式服务器或权威机构。此外，由于Biomed-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，例如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Biomed-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、人类基因组项目等。

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.