caBIG Overview
The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, or caBIG™, is a voluntary virtual informatics infrastructure that connects data, research tools, scientists, and organizations to leverage their combined strengths and expertise in an open federated environment with widely accepted standards and shared tools. The underlying service oriented infrastructure that supports caBIG™ is referred to as caGrid. Driven primarily by scientific use cases from the cancer research community caGrid provides the core enabling infrastructure necessary to compose the Grid of caBIG™. It provides the technology that enables collaborating institutions to share information and analytical resources efficiently and securely, and allows investigators to easily contribute to and leverage the resources of a national-scale, multi-institutional environment.
BMI's Involvement
BMI has been an official developer team on the caGrid effort since just after its initial investigation and early prototype in late 2004. This led to the successful release of caGrid 0.5 in late 2005, and a production release of caGrid 1.0 in December 2006 in which we assumed and executed the responsibilities of lead development team. We are currently looking towards the next release of caGrid, due in late 2007.
For more information on caGrid please visit cagrid.org.
Project Researchers
David Ervin
Shannon Hastings, M.S.
Tahsin Kurc, Ph.D.
Stephen Langella, M.S.
Scott Oster, M.S.
Joel Saltz, M.D., Ph.D.
Project Funding Participation
caBIG Architecture and Strategic Planning Workspaces Participation and caGrid Development
Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Architecture Workspace
Project Publications
Publications |
Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, Stephen Langella, David W. Ervin, Ravi Madduri, Tahsin M. Kurc, Frank Siebenlist, Ian Foster, Krishnakant Shanbhag, Peter A. Covitz, Joel H. Saltz, "caGrid 1.0: A Grid Enterprise Architecture for Cancer Research", Proceedings of the 2007 AMIA Annual Symposium, 2007: pp. 573-577. |
Joel H. Saltz, Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, Stephen Langella, William Sanchez, Manav Kher, Peter A. Covitz, Tahsin M. Kurc, Krishnakant Shanbhag, "caGrid: design and implementation of the core architecture of the cancer biomedical informatics grid", Bioinformatics, 2006: pp. 1910-1916. |
Presentations |
Scott Oster, "Compatibility Guidelines Version 3 Draft (Gold)", caBIG Joint Architecture/Vocabularies and Common Data Elements Workspaces, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-08-08 |
Scott Oster, Patrick McConnell, "caGrid/TeraGrid Integration Working Group", caBIG Joint Architecture/Vocabularies and Common Data Elements Workspaces, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-08-08 |
Scott Oster, "caGrid 1.1 Overview", Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-08-07 |
Scott Oster, "caGrid 2.0 Planning", Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-08-07 |
Scott Oster, "Current caGrid 1.0 Feature Highlights", caBIG Architecture/VCDE Joint Face to Face meeting, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-08-06 |
Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, "caGrid 1.1 Demos and Training", Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-08-06 |
Scott Oster, "caGrid Future Direction Planning", Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-08-06 |
Scott Oster, "Keynote Address: The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid: Connecting the Cancer Research Community", Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE) 2007, HPDC Workshop, Monterey, California, Presented: 2007-06-25 |
Shannon L. Hastings, David W. Ervin, Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, "caBIG Developer Bootcamp", caBIG Developer Bootcamp, Rockville, MD, Presented: 2007-04-17 |
Scott Oster, Tahsin M. Kurc, Shannon L. Hastings, "Part B: Case Study on Grid Enabling Your Silver-Level Compatible System", caBIG Annual Meeting 2007, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-02-07 |
Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, David W. Ervin, Stephen Langella, "caGrid Service Architecture and Overview", caBIG Annual Meeting 2007, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-02-07 |
Shannon L. Hastings, "Introduce Technology Demonstation", CaBIG 2007 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-02-06 |
Shannon L. Hastings, David W. Ervin, Scott Oster, Stephen Langella, "Developing caBIG Grid Services for Beginners (HANDS ON)", caBIG Annual Meeting 2007, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-02-06 |
Scott Oster, "caGrid 1.0 - Reference Implications - How we got on the Grid", caBIG Annual Meeting 2007, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-02-06 |
Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, Stephen Langella, David W. Ervin, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "caGrid 1.0 Overview (poster)", caBIG Annual Meeting 2007, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-02-05 |
Shannon L. Hastings, David W. Ervin, Scott Oster, Stephen Langella, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "Introduce: Grid Service Authoring Toolkit (poster)", caBIG Annual Meeting 2007, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-02-05 |
Scott Oster, Stephen Langella, Shannon L. Hastings, David W. Ervin, "caGrid Testing Framework (poster)", caBIG Annual Meeting 2007, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2007-02-05 |
Joel H. Saltz, "Biomedical Informatics Research", Industry Collaboration Symposium, Columbus, OH, Presented: 2006-12-04 |
Scott Oster, "caGrid 1.0 Trust Architecture", 3rd Meeting of The Americas Grid Policy Management Authority of International Grid Trust Federation, Austin, Texas, Presented: 2006-11-29 |
Shannon L. Hastings, "Rapid Generation of Grid Services with Introduce", (SC07) Super Computing 2007, Tampa, FL, Presented: 2006-11-17 |
Stephen Langella, "caGrid 1.0 Security Infrastructure", Grid World 2006, Washington DC, Presented: 2006-09-14 |
Shannon L. Hastings, "Introduce: Building Strongly Typed Grid Services", Grid World 2006, Washington D.C., Presented: 2006-09-11 |
Joel H. Saltz, "Architecture of a Strongly Typed Grid and Lessons Learned from the Cancer Research Community", CCGSC 2006, Flatrock, NC, Presented: 2006-09-10 |
Stephen Langella, "Identity Management and Federation Working Group Meeting", Presented: 2006-05-02 |
Joel H. Saltz, "Integrating With Other Grids", 2006 caBIG Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA, Presented: 2006-04-11 |
J. Robert Beck, David Fenstermacher, Joel H. Saltz, "caBIG Strategic Plan", 2006 caBIG Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA, Presented: 2006-04-10 |
Eliot Siegel, Joel H. Saltz, "Introduction to Imaging in the caBIG Program", 2006 caBIG Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA, Presented: 2006-04-10 |
Stephen Langella, "Identity Management and Federation Working Group Kickoff Meeting", Presented: 2006-03-21 |
Scott Oster, "caBIG Special Interest Groups: Common Query Language", caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2005-08-18 |
Stephen Langella, "caGrid Security Architecture Version 0.5", caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2005-08-17 |
Patrick McConnell, Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, "caGrid Version 0.5 Reference Implementations: RProteomics", caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2005-08-17 |
Stephen Langella, "caGrid Security Architecture Version 0.5 Overview", caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., Presented: 2005-08-16 |
Stephen Langella, "caGrid Architecture Version 0.5 Globus API Specification Review", caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2005-08-16 |
Stephen Langella, "caGrid Security Architecture Version 0.5 Installation", caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., Presented: 2005-08-16 |
"caGrid Version 0.5 Architecture Overview: Analytical Services Toolkit Service API", caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2005-08-16 |
Scott Oster, Manav Kher, "caGrid Version 0.5 Architecture Overview: Advertisement & Discovery", caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2005-08-16 |
Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, "caGrid Version 0.5 Architecture Overview: Analytical Services Toolkit", caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2005-08-16 |
Scott Oster, "caGrid Version 0.5 Deployment: Registration", caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2005-08-16 |
Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, "caGrid Version 0.5 Deployment: Local Metadata", caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2005-08-16 |
Scott Oster, Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, "caGrid Version 0.5 API Specification Review: Metadata and Discovery", caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2005-08-16 |
Stephen Langella, "The Mobius Project (Overview)", First DIALOGUE Workshop: Applications-Driven Issues in Data Grids, Columbus, OH, Presented: 2005-08-02 |
Scott Oster, "The Data Grid Infrastructure of caBIG: Poblems and Approaches", First DIALOGUE Workshop: Applications-Driven Issues in Data Grids, Columbus, OH, Presented: 2005-08-01 |
Stephen Langella, "caGrid Security Architecture Version 0.5 (extended version)", Global Grid Forum 14 (GGF'14), Chicago, IL, Presented: 2005-06-28 |
Stephen Langella, "caGrid Security Architecture Version 0.5", Global Grid Forum 14 (GGF'14), Chicago, IL, Presented: 2005-06-27 |
Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, "caBig and its use of OGSA-DAI: an experience using non standard factories", 3rd OGSA-DAI User Group Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, Presented: 2005-06-01 |
Scott Oster, Stephen Langella, Shannon L. Hastings, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "XML-based Data Management Support for Biomedical Applications", 2005 caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2005-04-12 |
Scott Oster, William Sanchez, "caGRID Phase II: Scope of project implementation", 2005 caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Presented: 2005-04-12 |
Joel H. Saltz, Peter A. Covitz, "Developing a Universal Grid to Support Cancer Research", Advancing Practice, Instruction and Innovation Through Informatics (APIII), Frontiers in Oncology and Pathology Informatics, Pittsburgh, PA, Presented: 2004-10-08 |
Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, Stephen Langella, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "caBig and the Mobius Project", caBIG Architecture Workspace, Video teleconference, Columbus, OH, Presented: 2004-07-16 |
Abstracts |
Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, Stephen Langella, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "Data Management and Exchange in the Cancer Grid", (2004-10-06 to 2004-10-08), Pittsburgh |
Shannon L. Hastings, Michael Gray, Tahsin M. Kurc, Umit V. Catalyurek, Tyler Gingrich, Donn Young, Joel H. Saltz, "Grid Support for Collaborative Clinical and Biomedical Research Studies", (2002-10-02 to 2002-10-04), Pittsburgh |