caBIG® Links Newsletter – Issue 15 Now Available

Update: caBIG^® Cancer Center Deployment

BOSTON… DURHAM… SAN FRANCISCO…

National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Centers in these and other cities have been engaged in the development, testing, and adoption of caBIG ® technologies since the inception of the caBIG^® initiative. Following the successful completion of the Pilot Phase in early 2007, the NCI Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) began a systematic program to connect NCI-designated Cancer Centers to caGrid, the caBIG^® grid infrastructure.

SAN DIEGO… DETROIT… ALBUQUERQUE…

As part of this process, more than 40 Cancer Centers are installing one or more caBIG^® tools and connecting to the grid services required to enable more effective collaboration and data exchange throughout the cancer community.

The end of September 2008 marked the one year milestone in this ongoing process. Virtually all of the NCI-designated Cancer Centers involved in the first year of this program have already connected to the caBIG^® grid, deploying over 100 grid services.

To view the full article, please visit: http://cabig.cancer.gov/media/links/OctNov_08/action.asp.

Q & A with Devjani Chatterjee
Center Deployment Lead
Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University

1. Why did your organization decide to connect to caBIG^®? What specific IT and research challenges do you hope to address through your deployment of caBIG^®?

The Informatics Core at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University has either developed in-house or purchased software for our cancer researchers for many years. This work has given us a great appreciation for the scope of the projects being undertaken by caBIG^®, and what those projects mean for us: the ability to obtain state-of-the-art, interoperable applications for our investigators. The deployment of caBIG^® applications also allow our investigators to meet their data sharing responsibilities as NIH-funded researchers.  

To read the full article, please visit: http://cabig.cancer.gov/media/links/OctNov_08/faq.asp.