Visual Data Extraction and Conversion Programming Tool

可视化数据提取和转换编程工具

基本信息

批准号：
6929696
负责人：
HUI-HSIEN CHOU
金额：
$ 20.64万
依托单位：
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2002
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2002-08-01 至 2007-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6929696
关键词：
artificial intelligence automated data processing biomedical resource computer data analysis computer human interaction computer program /software computer system design /evaluation data management information retrieval

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In recent decades, biomedical researchers are facing a new challenge that grows exponentially. The challenge is how to handle the large volume of biological data automatically generated by various whole-cell study methods such as genomics, microarrays, and proteomics. These new methods provide enormous opportunities for rapid advances in biomedical research and medicine because they allow scientists to study living beings in a global scale with greater speed. However, analyzing the data generated by these new methods can be a daunting task and often requires the development of specialized data extraction and conversion computer programs. Because only a few scientists are well trained both in life sciences and computer science, there exists a bottleneck between the great research opportunities these volume data can provide us, and the actual advances scientists can achieve from using them. In this project, we propose to develop an auto-programming tool for biomedical scientists to help them handle the large amount of data in their research. This tool will observe the visual extraction and conversion of sample data by users via a graphical user interlace, i.e., through the point, click and drag operations familiar to most computer users. After that, it will be able to automatically generate computer programs that can carry out the same data extraction and conversion tasks for its users, on any new data. That is to say, by seeing a few examples of a user's data extraction and conversion needs, this tool can automatically turn that into computer solutions. Using this tool will be easy and will not require any sophisticated computer science training because it does the programming job for its users automatically. This tool can have the broadest applicability in all biomedical research areas where textual format data are generated and processed with computational technologies. Therefore, this tool will provide great enabling power to biomedical scientists to help them make rapid advances in biomedical research and medicine.

描述（由申请人提供）：近几十年来，生物医学研究人员正面临着成倍增长的新挑战。挑战是如何处理各种全细胞研究方法（例如基因组学，微阵列和蛋白质组学）自动生成的大量生物学数据。这些新方法为生物医学研究和医学的快速进步提供了巨大的机会，因为它们允许科学家以更大的速度研究全球生物。但是，分析这些新方法生成的数据可能是一项艰巨的任务，并且通常需要开发专门的数据提取和转换计算机程序。由于只有少数科学家在生命科学和计算机科学领域接受了良好的培训，因此这些量数据可以为我们提供的巨大研究机会之间存在瓶颈，而科学家可以从中使用它们可以实现的实际进步。在这个项目中，我们建议为生物医学科学家开发自动编程工具，以帮助他们处理研究中的大量数据。该工具将通过图形用户交叉插曲（即，通过点，单击和拖动操作对大多数计算机用户熟悉的单击和拖动操作）观察用户对示例数据的可视化提取和转换。之后，它将能够自动生成计算机程序，这些程序可以在任何新数据上为其用户执行相同的数据提取和转换任务。也就是说，通过看到一些用户数据提取和转换需求的示例，该工具可以自动将其转变为计算机解决方案。使用此工具将很容易，并且不需要任何复杂的计算机科学培训，因为它会自动为用户提供编程工作。该工具可以在所有生物医学研究领域具有最广泛的适用性，在这些研究领域中，通过计算技术生成和处理文本格式数据。因此，该工具将为生物医学科学家提供巨大的能力，以帮助他们在生物医学研究和医学方面取得快速的进步。