Make Your Data Sharable

Why Researchers Use caBIG™

caBIG™ tools and infrastructure allow researchers and clinicians to collaborate with colleagues in their own institutions or across the globe simply and securely, leveraging shared expertise and large multidisciplinary data collections that allow complex biological questions to be asked and answered faster and more effectively than ever before.

End User Benefits of Data Sharing

Why Share Data?

• The large volumes of research data created by the high throughput genomics and proteomics technologies can best be harvested by teams of individuals - rather than by single PIs.
• To realize the scientific and public health benefits of translational and personalized medicine, collaboration across and within disciplines is required to leverage broad knowledge and skill bases.
• Data sharing raises the visibility of individual studies and data collections; it opens avenues of data dissemination and validation – leading to more citations in publications and increased prominence.
• Grants from NIH exceeding $500,000 require a plan for data sharing.

How to Share

Your organization can join the growing community of academic and commercial organizations that are implementing caBIG™ and gaining the benefits of data sharing and collaboration with other researchers

• Making a Tool caBIG™ Compatible - understand what it means to be caGrid compatible and what steps your organization will need to take to achieve compatibility.
• Data Sharing and Compatibility Framework - learn about caBIG™ policies and resources related to data sharing.
• caGrid - an overview of how caGrid works and links to the current version of caGrid.
• Infrastructure - explore the open source software products that make up the back bone of caBIG ™.
• Data Resources - a collection of downloadable data resources.