BMI Featured in International Science Grid This Week
Wednesday 10/17/2007
International Science Grid This Week(iSGTW) - Connecting the cancer community through grid technology
In the world of cancer research, “connectivity” is becoming increasingly important: laboratory and clinical information are being generated in vast quantities and at increasing rates, and using this data to improve patient outcomes requires truly interoperable informatics systems.
To facilitate this connectivity, the National Cancer Institute has launched the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid—caBIG—a voluntary informatics infrastructure designed to link researchers, physicians and patients, accelerate research discoveries and improve patient outcomes.
At the heart of the caBIG initiative is caGrid, the core infrastructure that promotes common applications, tools, information standards and data and analytical resources. “caGrid fits into caBIG by facilitating information sharing,” says Joel Saltz, whose research team led the collaborative development of caGrid. Chair and professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, as well as Davis chair of cancer in the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Saltz says caBIG is creating a World Wide Web for cancer research. “caGrid is the glue that links all of the caBIG-compatible tools and allows information to be shared and decision-making to be coordinated across multiple sites. It’s the interaction communication layer of caBIG.”
[isgtw.org]
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