tabulator with clinical data

Tim,

As part of our work in the HCLS drug safety and efficacy task force (http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG/Drug_Safety_and_Efficacy), we're thinking of using your Tabulator for a proposed demo since the clinical SDTM model (ala CDISC) is pretty much based on a table system. 

We have been working refining CDISC's SDTM to take better advantage of RDF-OWL, but many practitioners out there are used to also seeing clinical trial data in rows and columns, which would seem to be a good match using Tabulator. Pfizer has already provided us with some *manufactured data*, which we're using to get a first pass RDF model working.

This data is (pretty closely) organized as follows:

- Clinical Trial Study
    - Patients
        - Clinic Visits
            - Observations (treatments, findings, interpretations)
                - Vital signs and biomarkers

Since many clinical researchers are used to seeing this data in tabular form (along with statistical analyses), we thought tabulator might be a straightforward way of visualizing the RDF formatted data, and possibly using maps and timleine views as well. I will try a first pass, and see if the others find it useful as well, but your group may be able to give us pointers of we get stuck. 

Will let you know how this proceeds...

cheers,
Eric

Received on Sunday, 11 March 2007 21:16:43 UTC