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Up to now, the lack of a common infrastructure has prevented clinical research institutions from being able to mine and analyze disparate data sources. This inability to share technologies and data developed by different cancer research institutions can therefore severely hamper the research process. Similarly, the lack of a unifying architecture can prove to be a major roadblock to a researcher's ability to mine different databases. Most critically, however, even within a single laboratory, researchers have difficultyintegrating data from different technologies because of a lack of common standards and other technological and medico-legal and ethical issues. As a result, very few cross-site studies and clinical trials are performed and in most cases it isn't possible to seamlessly integrate multi-level data (from the molecular to the organ, individual and population levels). Moreover, clinicians or molecular biologists often find it hard to exploit each other's expertise due to the absence of a cooperative environment which enables the sharing of data, resources or tools for comparing results and experiments, and a uniform platform supporting the seamless integration and analysis of disease-related data at all levels. |
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