Real Time Web-based Data Monitoring and Manipulation System to Improve Translational Research Quality

The use of the internet technology and web browser capabilities of the internethas provided researchers/scientists with many advantages, which includes butnot limited to ease of access, platform independence of computer systems,relatively low cost of web access etc. Hence online collaboration like socialnetworks and information/data exchange among individuals and organizationscan now be done seamlessly. In practice, many investigators rely heavily ondifferent data modalities for studying and analyzing their research/study and alsofor producing quality reports. The lack of coherency and inconsistencies in datasets can dramatically reduce the quality of research data. Thus to prevent loss ofdata quality and value and provide the needed functionality of data, we haveproposed a novel approach as an ad-hoc component for data monitoring andmanipulation called RTWebDMM (Real-Time Web-based Data Monitoring andManipulation) system to improve the quality of translational research data. TheRTWebDMM is proposed as an auditor, monitor, and explorer for improving theway in which investigators access and interact with the data sets in real-timeusing a web browser. The performance of the proposed approach was evaluatedwith different data sets from various studies. It is demonstrated that the approachyields very promising results for data quality improvement while leveraging on aweb-enabled environment.