NCI CBIIT caCORE (Cancer Common Ontologic Representation Environment) and infrastructure are the building blocks and tools needed to develop interoperable information management systems that enable sharing information from the scientific bench to the clinical bedside and back.

caCORE includes resources for managing vocabulary, managing and hosting metadata, and model-driven software engineering.

caBIG®  collaborators are developing caCORE-based systems for deployment on caGrid  .

caCORE Vocabulary management, data management and model-driven sofware engineering tools. Cancer Data Standards Registry and Repository (caDSR) A database and tool set used to create, edit and deploy common data elements. Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) A set of services and resources that address NCI's needs for controlled vocabulary. caAdapter An open source tool set that provides model mapping services in support of caCORE and facilitates data mapping and transformation among different kinds of data sources including HL7 v2 messages, HL7 v3 messages, and Regulatory Data Sets. Common Security Module (CSM) Application security tools that address authentication, authorization and user provisioning. Common Logging Module (CLM) A set of auditing and logging tools implemented in a flexible and comprehensive solution.

caCORE Software Development Kit (SDK) Model-driven software engineering tool for creating 'caCORE-like' software systems.