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Mapping OBI and XPDL to a MDE Framework for Laboratory Information Processing

Authors:
Alessandro Maccagnan
Nicola Cannata
Giorgio Valle
Tullio Vardanega

Keywords: Model-Driven Engineering; Laboratory Proto- cols; Ontology; Process Definition Language.

Abstract:
Biomedical analyses are becoming increasingly com- plex, both for the type of data produced and the procedures necessary to obtain them. This trend is expected to continue; therefore the development of suitable systems for information and protocol management is becoming essential for the full exploitation of the field. Custom-built applications obtained by direct merging of software engineering expertise with domain- specific knowledge may be temporary solutions, but they are generally ineffective both in terms of cost and performance. Here we propose a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) that enables the domain experts to express laboratory protocols using domain knowledge, free from the incidence and mediation of the software implementation artifacts. In the system that we propose this is made possible by basing the modeling language on an authoritative domain specific ontology.

Pages: 150 to 154

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: January 30, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4375

ISBN: 978-1-61208-181-6

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from January 30, 2012 to February 4, 2012