CIELO | Collaborative Informatics Environment for Learning on Health Outcomes

CIELO (Collaborative Informatics Environment for Learning on Health Outcomes) is a collaborative research platform.

Enables the reuse of data analytic tools associated with research programs.
Helps reduce time and costs of research by enhancing research reproducibility and transparency.
Provides the research community with an “app store” platform facilitating the submission and sharing of both data sets and corresponding analytical tools/workflows.
Social networking features to enhance adoption and usability.

The architecture of CIELO involves three distinct layers with the researchers interacting only through the web application.

The key features of CIELO include:

Fully functional user registration process.
End to end authentication and authorization including admin role functional workflow.
Creation of bundles, including upload & download of analytical code and corresponding data.
License selection workflow to enable associating appropriate licenses to bundles.
Semantic annotations for bundles facilitating efficient discovery of relevant code and data.
Social networking features to follow users, bundles, publications and semantic annotations.

Payne P, Lele O, Johnson B, Holve E. Enabling Open Science for Health Research: Collaborative Informatics Environment for Learning on Health Outcomes (CIELO). J Med Internet Res. 2017;19(7):e276. PMCID: 5556258.