Hi Thien, Thanks for your email message.
Here are 2 papers that might help in expanding on OODT: The "Information Integration" side of the components: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/pubs/ICSE06.pdf The "Data Processing and Cataloging/Archiving" side of the components: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/pubs/SMCIT09.pdf We have projects within the OODT community (e.g., working with the NCI, and the EDRN projects) that deal with proteomics data, so there's a good shot OODT might be the right fit. To get started with the OODT source code, you might want to check this out: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OODT/Home https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OODT/Getting+started+with+Apache+OODT https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=27361963 Those are links to our wiki that are pretty actively maintained and operated on. Your thoughts/ideas about how to improve the documentation and work with the source code are welcomed. I would echo Cameron and Dave's comments: please feel free to ask questions here and we'll help! Cheers, Chris On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Nguyen, Thien wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a medical informatics software developer at the Boston Department of > Veteran Affairs. We are reviewing tools to prototype for use in our systems > that would help manage, share, and track research information. We have > genomic data, health records, phenotypic data, and results of nlp/machine > learning techniques. > > OODT sounds like a nice package that we would like to try out, but, honestly, > the website says very little. I'm not even sure where to begin to even try > interacting with the downloaded source. Any direction on how to get started > or lower-level resources to read up on would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Thien ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
