BMI & caGRID/caBIG Featured in Frontier Magazine’s winter issue
Saturday 01/05/2008
“Accelerating cancer research with the Cancer Bioinformatics Grid”
The James Cancer Hospital’s winter issue of Frontier Magazine features BMI and its leadership role on the caBIG project as the focus of its Network News section. The article is accompanied by a picture of the BMI researchers along with chair Joel Saltz and covers in detail the novel capabilities of the grid. The following is an excerpt from the article (see link below for full text):
“Although caBIG also uses the Internet, it is entirely different from the World Wide Web. Web sites provide words and images that humans must interpret. “The computer doesn’t know what any of it means,” Saltz says. caBIG is developing technology that allows medical researchers and clinicians to describe what their data actually mean before they make it available on the system. That means computer programs can use that data to make decisions. This was not possible before.””
“This ability to pull data that are stored in different ways and in different computers located at multiple collaborating centers is made possible by software developed by Saltz and his group. This software, called caGrid, is the infrastructure, the “middleware,” that works behind the scenes and uses the Internet to move information across the caBIG system.” [Frontier Magazine, Network News]
Read the entire article by clicking the link below:
http://www.jamesline.com/news/publications/frontiers/archives/?ID=2332