The BioDQ Project

 


 

§        Project Description

 

The goal of the project is to develop a model for estimating and managing the quality of biological data stored in genomics repositories. Our Quality Estimation Model (QEM) comprises a set of measurable quality dimensions, and a set of quantitative measures that can be systematically computed to provide a score for each quality dimension. QEM can be integrated to existing genomics repositories by means of the Quality Management Architecture (QMA).

Research Study

A research study among several domain experts was conducted as part of the BioDQ project. The purpose of the research study was to collect experts’ assessments about the quality of genomic records. This information was later used to evaluate the validity and usefulness of our quality estimation model. A detailed report of the answers collected in this study can be found in Alexandra’s Doctoral Dissertation.

 

 

 

§        People

 

Joachim Hammer

Ph.D.

Sanjay Ranka

Ph.D.

Alexandra Martinez

Ph.D.

 

Dr. Hammer and Dr. Ranka are faculty members of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department at the University of Florida. Ms. Martinez is a doctoral student in the same Department.

 

 

§        Publications

 

A. Martinez, J. Hammer, and S. Ranka. BioDQ: Data Quality Estimation and Management for Genomics Databases.” Accepted for ISBRA’08, to appear in Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics.

A. Martinez. BIODQ: A Model for Data Quality Estimation and Management in Biological Databases.” Doctoral Dissertation, University of Florida, October, 2007. (pdf)

A. Martinez, J. Hammer, and S. Ranka. A Model for Quality Estimation in Biological Data Sources." CISE Technical Report REP-2007-293, January, 2007.

Martinez and J. Hammer. “Making Quality Count in Biological Data Sources.” Second International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Information Quality in Information Systems (IQIS 2005), Baltimore, MD, June 17, 2005.

A. Martinez and J. Hammer. “A Data Quality Model for Genomic Repositories.” Florida Bioinformatics Workshop 2005 (FBW 2005), Gainesville, FL, February 21-22, 2005.