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Dove Press, International Journal of Nanomedicine, p. 79

DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s4375

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Spatiotemporal integration of molecular and anatomical data in virtual reality using semantic mapping

Journal article published in 2009 by Andrei L. Turinsky, Quang M. Trinh ORCID, Jianguo Xia, David S. Wishart, Jasmine Chang, Ajay Sabhaney, Xiaoli Dong, Paul Mk Gordon, Ryan Pw Janzen, David Hau, Jung Soh, Christoph W. Sensen
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Abstract

We have developed a computational framework for spatiotemporal integration of molecular and anatomical datasets in a virtual reality environment. Using two case studies involving gene expression data and pharmacokinetic data, respectively, we demonstrate how existing knowledge bases for molecular data can be semantically mapped onto a standardized anatomical context of human body. Our data mapping methodology uses ontological representations of heterogeneous biomedical datasets and an ontology reasoner to create complex semantic descriptions of biomedical processes. This framework provides a means to systematically combine an increasing amount of biomedical imaging and numerical data into spatiotemporally coherent graphical representations. Our work enables medical researchers with different expertise to simulate complex phenomena visually and to develop insights through the use of shared data, thus paving the way for pathological inference, developmental pattern discovery and biomedical hypothesis testing.