Director’s Note
Welcome to the first issue of Links, the online monthly newsletter describing recent developments at NCI’s cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid™ (caBIG™) project. Read More
Community News
Speaking the Same Language
NCI Thesaurus and the Gene Ontology have been reviewed and accepted as vocabulary standards by the Vocabularies and Common Data Elements (VCDE) Workspace and will be forwarded in early May to the caBIG™ community for comment.
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Upcoming Workspace Face-to-Face Meetings
To view upcoming face-to-face workspace meetings, click here.
Clinical Trials Management Software in Action at Duke University
Michael Morse, M.D., M.H.S., a gastrointestinal oncologist at Duke University’s Comprehensive Cancer Center in Durham, NC, has long been interested in the use of cancer vaccines to prevent colon cancer recurrence. His latest endeavor is a clinical trial focused on a vaccine called PANVAC. Because of the trial’s stringent recruitment criteria (for instance, patients must have had any metastatic liver tumors removed before enrolling), Morse needed to accrue patients from multiple cancer centers to ensure that he had enough participants to draw meaningful conclusions.
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New Opportunities for Expanded Technology Support and Deployment
caBIG™ was built for and by the biomedical research community. The path to more integrative science is being paved by the vital collaboration of the caBIG™ community, collaboration that to date has resulted in the creation of more than 40 software tools and inclusion of nearly 1,000 participants. As the initiative expands and becomes more deeply embedded into scientific and clinical workflows, that collaborative development and adoption approach continues and expands as well.
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