Towards self-describing and FAIR bulk formats for biomedical data.

We introduce a self-describing serialized format for bulk biomedical data called the Portable Format for Biomedical (PFB) data. The Portable Format for Biomedical data is based upon Avro and encapsulates a data model, a data dictionary, the data itself, and pointers to third party controlled vocabul...

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Main Authors: Michael Lukowski, Andrew Prokhorenkov, Robert L Grossman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010944