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ArticleJournal of extracellular vesicles2014

Informatic system for a global tissue-fluid biorepository with a graph theory-oriented graphical user interface.

William E Butler, Nadia Atai, Bob Carter, Fred Hochberg

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Article in Journal of extracellular vesicles, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. ExRNA in Biofluids as Biomarkers for Brain Tumors.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

William E ButlerNeurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Nadia AtaiNeurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Cell Biology and Histology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Bob CarterDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of San Diego Medical School, San Diego, CA, USA.
Fred HochbergMassachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

The role of microvesicles in giloma virotherapyP01CA069246 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI CHAREST, ALAIN · 1996 to 2021
$30.9M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA069246
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Richard Floor Biorepository supports collaborative studies of extracellular vesicles (EVs) found in human fluids and tissue specimens. The current emphasis is on biomarkers for central nervous system neoplasms but its structure may serve as a template for collaborative EV translational studies in other fields. The informatic system provides specimen inventory tracking with bar codes assigned to specimens and containers and projects, is hosted on globalized cloud computing resources, and embeds a suite of shared documents, calendars, and video-conferencing features. Clinical data are recorded in relation to molecular EV attributes and may be tagged with terms drawn from a network of externally maintained ontologies thus offering expansion of the system as the field matures. We fashioned the graphical user interface (GUI) around a web-based data visualization package. This system is now in an early stage of deployment, mainly focused on specimen tracking and clinical, laboratory, and imaging data capture in support of studies to optimize detection and analysis of brain tumour-specific mutations. It currently includes 4,392 specimens drawn from 611 subjects, the majority with brain tumours. As EV science evolves, we plan biorepository changes which may reflect multi-institutional collaborations, proteomic interfaces, additional biofluids, changes in operating procedures and kits for specimen handling, novel procedures for detection of tumour-specific EVs, and for RNA extraction and changes in the taxonomy of EVs. We have used an ontology-driven data model and web-based architecture with a graph theory-driven GUI to accommodate and stimulate the semantic web of EV science.

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biorepositoryexosomeextracellular vesiclegraph theorymedical research databaseontology

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PMID25317275
PMCPMC4172698

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