System, method and program product for management of life sciences data and related research
First Claim
1. A system for managing data for researchers, said system comprising:
- means for automatically receiving research data from laboratory instruments;
means for accessing a database containing established reference data;
means for automatically obtaining recently available reference data;
means for accessing a database containing experimental data;
a plurality of applications to process respective types of said data;
means, responsive to a request by a researcher to perform a data processing function, for invoking one or more of said processing applications and supplying to said one or more processing applications parameters to perform said data processing function; and
means, responsive to the invoking and supply of parameters, for said one or more processing applications to automatically access types of said data required to perform the respective data processing function.
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Abstract
System, method and program product for managing data for researchers. A research data server receives and manages experimental data and research data and results from the researchers, and operates with a virtual storage device to maintain the experimental data and research data and results. A reference data access server receives and manages external reference data relating to the research and operating with the virtual storage device to maintain the external reference data. Computational resources allow researchers to capture, process and analyze experimental data to obtain results. A research data network connects the virtual storage device, research data server, reference data access server and the computational resources to allow transfer of data there between. Security management services authenticate and authorize access by the researchers to the system.
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32 Claims
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1. A system for managing data for researchers, said system comprising:
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means for automatically receiving research data from laboratory instruments;
means for accessing a database containing established reference data;
means for automatically obtaining recently available reference data;
means for accessing a database containing experimental data;
a plurality of applications to process respective types of said data;
means, responsive to a request by a researcher to perform a data processing function, for invoking one or more of said processing applications and supplying to said one or more processing applications parameters to perform said data processing function; and
means, responsive to the invoking and supply of parameters, for said one or more processing applications to automatically access types of said data required to perform the respective data processing function. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for managing data for researchers, said method comprising the steps of:
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automatically receiving research data from laboratory instruments;
maintaining a database containing established reference data;
automatically obtaining recently available reference data;
maintaining a database containing experimental data;
responsive to a request by a researcher to perform a data processing function, invoking one or more processing applications and supplying to said one or more processing applications parameters to perform said data processing function; and
in response to the invoking and supply of parameters, said one or more processing applications automatically access types of said data required to perform the respective data processing function. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for managing data for researchers, said system comprising:
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a virtual storage device including online and near line storage, and having predefined policies for moving stored data between the online and near line storage;
a research data server for receiving and managing experimental data, research data and research results, and operating with the virtual storage device to maintain the experimental data, research data and research results;
a reference data access server receiving and managing external reference data relating to research of the researchers and operating with the virtual storage device to maintain the external reference data;
computational resources for the researchers to capture and process experimental data to generate the research results; and
a research data network connecting the virtual storage device, research data server, reference data access server and computational resources to allow transfer of data there between, the research data network further including security management services to authenticate and authorize access by the researchers. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method of managing research conducted by researchers, said method comprising the steps of:
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creating a set of policies defining external reference information relevant to the research;
retrieving, at predefined intervals, external reference information in accordance with the policies;
comparing the retrieved information with reference data stored in a reference data server to determine if the retrieved information is redundant or of lower quality than data already stored in the reference data server and storing retrieved information which was determined to be non-redundant and/or of acceptable better quality in the reference data server;
storing experimental data from at least one laboratory instrument in a research data server; and
providing the researchers with access to the stored information in the reference data server and to experimental data in the research data server. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A method of managing data for research, said method comprising the steps of:
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providing a plurality of researchers with access to a research data network;
creating reference data policies defining for each of said researchers types of reference data that will be of use to the researcher, creating experimental data policies defining for each of said researchers types of experimental data and results that will be of use to the researcher and storing these policies on the research data network;
retrieving, at defined intervals, from data sources outside the research data network, external reference data as defined by the reference policies;
examining the retrieved reference data to determine if it is redundant in view of reference data already stored on the research data network or if it is of better quality than reference data already stored on the network and storing retrieved reference data on the research data network which has been determined to be non-redundant or of better quality than reference data already stored;
collecting experimental data from laboratory instruments through the research data network and storing the collected data on the research data network; and
publishing new reference data and experimental data to researchers according to the reference data policies and experimental data policies defined for the researchers. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30)
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31. A computer program product to manage data for research conducted by researchers, said computer program product comprising:
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a computer readable medium;
first program instructions executable to provide the researchers with access to a research data network;
second program instructions to retrieve, at defined intervals, from data sources outside the research data network, external reference data as defined by reference policies created by said researchers;
third program instructions to examine the retrieved reference data to determine if it is redundant in view of reference data already stored on the research data network or if it is of better quality than reference data already stored on the network and to store retrieved reference data on the research data network which has been determined to be non-redundant or of better quality than reference data already stored;
fourth program instructions to store experimental data from at least one laboratory instrument in a research data server; and
fifth program instructions to provide the researchers with access to the stored information in the reference data server and to experimental data in the research data server; and
whereinsaid first, second, third, fourth and fifth program instructions are recorded on said medium. - View Dependent Claims (32)
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