Facilitating scientific collaboration in data-intensive biomedical settings

This paper reports on a Web 2.0 tool that aims to facilitate collaboration in data-intensive biomedical settings. The proposed tool can be viewed as an innovative workbench incorporating and orchestrating a set of interoperable services that reduce the data-intensiveness and complexity overload at critical decision points to a manageable level, thus permitting stakeholders to be more productive and concentrate on creative activities. Through a particular collaboration scenario, we explore various possibilities and challenges of managing biomedical collaboration with the use of the proposed tool.