- The
technical committee TC 251 in
charge of Health Informatics at the European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
published the ENV 12018 standard "Identification, administrative, and common
clinical data structure for Intermittently Connected Devices used in healthcare"
where the data structures are described in ASN.1.
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- In
the USA, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) owns
GenBank, a
database featuring around 135 million DNA sequences (as of April 2011). Every
day the NCBI exchanges DNA sequence data with its European and Japanese
counterparts. The National Library of Medicine designed four databases of
scientific publications (the Unified Medical Language System, UMLS)
whose exchange formats are specified in ASN.1.
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- The
standards for interchange, encoding and storage of digital electro-cardiography
developed in the European research project AIM 1 use ASN.1.
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