Isabl Platform, a digital biobank for processing multimodal patient data Journal Article


Authors: Medina-Martínez, J. S.; Arango-Ossa, J. E.; Levine, M. F.; Zhou, Y.; Gundem, G.; Kung, A. L.; Papaemmanuil, E.
Article Title: Isabl Platform, a digital biobank for processing multimodal patient data
Abstract: Background: The widespread adoption of high throughput technologies has democratized data generation. However, data processing in accordance with best practices remains challenging and the data capital often becomes siloed. This presents an opportunity to consolidate data assets into digital biobanks—ecosystems of readily accessible, structured, and annotated datasets that can be dynamically queried and analysed. Results: We present Isabl, a customizable plug-and-play platform for the processing of multimodal patient-centric data. Isabl's architecture consists of a relational database (Isabl DB), a command line client (Isabl CLI), a RESTful API (Isabl API) and a frontend web application (Isabl Web). Isabl supports automated deployment of user-validated pipelines across the entire data capital. A full audit trail is maintained to secure data provenance, governance and ensuring reproducibility of findings. Conclusions: As a digital biobank, Isabl supports continuous data utilization and automated meta analyses at scale, and serves as a catalyst for research innovation, new discoveries, and clinical translation. © 2020, The Author(s).
Keywords: adult; reproducibility; patient coding; clinical research; genomics; image processing; software; meta analysis; catalyst; clinical translation; ecosystem; adoption; next generation sequencing; high throughput sequencing; data processing; hospital data processing; pipeline; software engineering; human; male; female; article; continuous data; reproducibilities; data handling; biobank; application programming interfaces (api); analysis information management system; multimodal data; annotated datasets; data generation; high throughput technology; relational database; web application
Journal Title: BMC Bioinformatics
Volume: 21
ISSN: 1471-2105
Publisher: Biomed Central Ltd  
Date Published: 2020-11-30
Start Page: 549
Language: English
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-020-03879-7
PUBMED: 33256603
PROVIDER: scopus
PMCID: PMC7708092
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Notes: Article -- Export Date: 4 January 2021 -- Source: Scopus
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  1. Andrew L Kung
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  2. Gunes Gundem
    56 Gundem
  3. Juan Santiago Medina
    38 Medina
  4. Max Levine
    35 Levine
  5. Yangyu Zhou
    14 Zhou