This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. A primary goal of the Research Resource is to facilitate the archiving of data within the physiologic and medical science communities. We have discovered that many small, medium, and even some large sized studies do not appropriately archive data during or after collection. As a result, invaluable information is lost and the value of reported findings is degraded. We believe the state of data archiving is due to a lack of recognition of the problem within the community, paired with the absence of appropriate and usable software. As a remedy, we have been developing a software platform for online, prospective, and collaborative archiving of physiologic data, called Physio-Arch. This new component is being actively used and developed by the Research Resource to provide private staging areas for data from several projects. The goal of the Physio-Arch project is to create a set of tools that will enable researchers to rapidly build custom data archives to support on-going studies and permanent archival. The platform is based on open source software technologies, resulting in an inexpensive and highly modifiable base on which to build specific implementations. Physio-Arch is a server-based system that allows multiple users to interact with a central repository of data via standard interfaces, like a web browser. In addition, Physio-Arch supports the use of relational databases to index data in a structured and searchable form.
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