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Review
. 2015 Aug;70(8):799-801.
doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-206781. Epub 2015 Mar 24.

The Study Team for Early Life Asthma Research (STELAR) consortium 'Asthma e-lab': team science bringing data, methods and investigators together

Adnan Custovic  1 , John Ainsworth  2 , Hasan Arshad  3 , Christopher Bishop  4 , Iain Buchan  2 , Paul Cullinan  5 , Graham Devereux  6 , John Henderson  7 , John Holloway  8 , Graham Roberts  9 , Steve Turner  6 , Ashley Woodcock  1 , Angela Simpson  1
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The Study Team for Early Life Asthma Research (STELAR) consortium 'Asthma e-lab': team science bringing data, methods and investigators together

Adnan Custovic et al. Thorax. 2015 Aug.

Abstract

We created Asthma e-Lab, a secure web-based research environment to support consistent recording, description and sharing of data, computational/statistical methods and emerging findings across the five UK birth cohorts. The e-Lab serves as a data repository for our unified dataset and provides the computational resources and a scientific social network to support collaborative research. All activities are transparent, and emerging findings are shared via the e-Lab, linked to explanations of analytical methods, thus enabling knowledge transfer. eLab facilitates the iterative interdisciplinary dialogue between clinicians, statisticians, computer scientists, mathematicians, geneticists and basic scientists, capturing collective thought behind the interpretations of findings.

Keywords: Asthma; Asthma Epidemiology; Paediatric asthma.

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Study Team for Early Life Asthma Research (STELAR) Asthma e-Lab: platform for uniform storage and interaction for UK birth cohorts data. ALSPAC, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children; ASHFORD, Ashford cohort (Kent); IOW, Isle of Wight cohort; MAAS, Manchester Asthma and Allergy Study; SEATON, Study of Eczema and Asthma To Observe the Effects of Nutrition (Aberdeen).
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