Publications by authors named "Kees Burger"

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged healthcare systems and research worldwide. Data is collected all over the world and needs to be integrated and made available to other researchers quickly. However, the various heterogeneous information systems that are used in hospitals can result in fragmentation of health data over multiple data 'silos' that are not interoperable for analysis.

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Background: Integration of heterogenous resources is key for Rare Disease research. Within the EJP RD, common Application Programming Interface specifications are proposed for discovery of resources and data records. This is not sufficient for automated processing between RD resources and meeting the FAIR principles.

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Article Synopsis
  • The 2015 BioHackathon brought together scientists and developers to create tools for sharing and reusing biological data.
  • They talked about problems with how to represent and use different kinds of biological information, like DNA and proteins.
  • The group shared their progress in fixing these issues and discussed future goals to improve how researchers can use biological data in their work.
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