Knowledge Centers: Domain Experts

The Knowledge Centers serve as the nexus for an expanding community employing caBIG™ tools, standards, and infrastructure in a specific domain. Knowledge Center staff can provide expert guidance to end-users, IT staff and senior decision makers implementing caBIG™ tools and infrastructure. Information about the specific caBIG™ applications managed by a particular Knowledge Center can be found on that Knowledge Center’s Wiki page. Knowledge Centers are as follows:   

• caGrid: The Ohio State University and The Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center, with the University of Chicago and the Argonne National Lab
• Clinical Trials Management Systems: Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center, with Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University, Cancer and Leukemia Group B – Information Systems (CALGB-IS), and SemanticBits
• Data Sharing and Intellectual Capital: University of Michigan
• Molecular Analysis Tools: Columbia University Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center with The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
• Tissue/Biospecimen Banking and Technology Tools: Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University at St. Louis
• Vocabulary: Mayo Clinic with SemanticBits