Patent ID: 7493265

Claim:
A computer-implemented system that integrates data from a plurality of biomedical development phases, comprising: a database that stores data collected from the biomedical development phases, said database further including a first metadata data structure that describes the data collected during a first biomedical development phase; a plurality of graphical user interfaces for collecting data relating to the biomedical development phases, wherein the plurality of graphical user interfaces are specific to different ones of the biomedical development phases; the plurality of graphical user interfaces including at least one first graphical user interface connected to the database that collects data during the first biomedical development phase, wherein structure of the first graphical user interface is defined based at least in part upon the first metadata data structure so that the first graphical user interface collects data points as well as first metadata that is to be stored within the first metadata data structure, said first metadata describing the collected data points, wherein at least a portion of the first metadata data structure is configured to provide information for a subsequent biomedical development phase, wherein at least a portion of the first metadata data structure contains links to another metadata structure associated with the subsequent biomedical development phase so that an audit trail may be generated, the links including at least one of patient identification metadata and study identification metadata; wherein the plurality of graphical user interfaces are configured to collect at least one of the patient identification metadata and the study identification metadata for each of the biomedical development phases such that the patient identification metadata or the study identification metadata may be used as linking data to indicate how the collected data interrelates with other data collected during the subsequent biomedical development phase; a genomic data warehouse that stores genomic information relating to a plurality of patients, the genomic data warehouse including a genomic metadata data structure that describes the genomic information and that includes patient identification metadata; and software instructions stored on a computer readable medium and configured for using the patient identification metadata in the genomic metadata structure to link genomic information in the genomic data warehouse with data collected during the plurality of biomedical development phases.