JAMIA publishes BMI article on caGrid 1.0
Thursday 01/10/2008
The Department of Biomedical Informatics is pleased to announce that the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) has just published an article by Scott Oster, Stephen Langella, Shannon Hastings, David Ervin, Ravi Madduri, Joshua
Phillips, Tashin Kurc, Frank Siebenlist, Peter Covitz, Krishnakant Shanbhag,
Ian Foster, and Joel Saltz about caGrid 1.0.
CaGrid version 1.0 has been developed as the core Grid architecture of the
NCI-sponsored cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIGTM) program. It is
designed to support a wide range of use cases in basic, translational, and
clinical research, including 1) discovery, 2) integrated and large-scale data
analysis, and 3) coordinated study. caGrid is built as a Grid software
infrastructure and leverages Grid computing technologies and the Web Services
Resource Framework standards. It provides a set of core services, toolkits
for the development and deployment of new community provided services, and
application programming interfaces for building client applications. While
caGrid 1.0 is designed to address use cases in cancer research, the
requirements associated with discovery, analysis and integration of large
scale data, and coordinated studies are common in other biomedical fields. In
this respect, caGrid 1.0 is the realization of a framework that can benefit
the entire biomedical community.
The article can be found at http://www.jamia.org/cgi/reprint/M2522v1. JAMIA is
an important vehicle for reaching the biomedical informatics community, and
this coverage of caGrid will help that community appreciate the current and
potential value of caGrid for myriad biomedical informatics
endeavors.
caGrid was featured in the October caBIG eLinks Newsletter. Visit
http://cabig.cancer.gov/media/links/October_07/index.asp to read the articles
about the grid and its developers. It was also featured in the International
Science Grid This Week in October (http://bmi.osu.edu/news_detail.php?id=67).
The caBIG community is proud that our robust connecting infrastructure is
being widely recognized!