CaGrid Documentation

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caGrid Knowledgebase Articles

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5-Minute Introduction

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30-Minute Introduction

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caGrid Overviews

The caGrid Overview provides an introduction to caGrid. The caGrid Technical Overview is a more technical overview for software developers.

caGrid Developer Wiki

Please visit the caGrid developer wiki for technical documentation on caGrid components.

caGrid Best Practices

There is an ongoing effort to document caGrid Best Practices.

Technical Resources

The cagrid.org wiki maintains a list of Technical Resources.

caGrid Deployment

Please visit the user track on deploying caGrid.

Publications

There are a number of detailed publications related to caGrid.

caGrid Architecture Design

• J. Saltz, S. Oster, S. Hastings, S. Langella, T. Kurc, W. Sanchez, M. Kher, A. Manisundaram, K. Shanbhag, and P. Covitz, "caGrid: design and implementation of the core architecture of the cancer biomedical informatics grid", Bioinformatics 2006 22(15):1910-1916. A paper presenting an overview of version 0.5 of caGrid and the design principles behind the caGrid infrastructure.

• S. Oster, S. Hastings, S. Langella, D. Ervin, R. Madduri, T. Kurc, F. Siebenlist, I. Foster, K. Shanbhag, P. Covitz, and J. Saltz, "caGrid 1.0: A Grid Enterprise Architecture for Cancer Research", the 2007 AMIA Annual Symposium, November, 2007. A short overview of caGrid 1.0.

• S. Oster, S. Langella, S. Hastings, D. Ervin, R. Madduri, J. Phillips, T. Kurc, F. Siebenlist, P. Covitz, K. Shanbhag, I. Foster, and J. Saltz, "caGrid 1.0: An Enterprise Grid Infrastructure for Biomedical Research", J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008;15:138-149. This paper presents a longer overview of caGrid 1.0 and its core components.

Pattern Templates for Translational Biomedical Research

• J. H. Saltz, S. L. Hastings, S. Langella, S. Oster, D. W. Ervin, A. Sharma, T. C. Pan, M. N. Gurcan, S. Madhavan, R. Madduri, E. Caserta, J. D. Permar, R. A. Ferreira, P. R. Payne, U. V. Catalyurek, G. Leone, M. Ostrowski, K. H. Buetow, K. Shanbhag, E. Siegel, I. Foster, and T. M. Kurc, "e-Science, caGrid, and Translational Biomedical Research", Technical Report. the Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, 2008. This paper presents pattern templates for using caGrid and caIntegrator for Translational Biomedical Research.

Introduce

• S. Hastings, S. Oster, S. Langella, D. Ervin, T. Kurc, and J. Saltz, "Introduce: An Open Source Toolkit for Rapid Development of Strongly Typed Grid Services", Journal of Grid Computing, Vol.5, No.4, pp. 407-427, March, 2007. A paper describing the architecture and design of the Introduce toolkit.

caGrid Security

• S. Langella, S. Oster, S. L. Hastings, F. Siebenlist, J. Phillips, D. W. Ervin, J. D. Permar, T. M. Kurc, and J. H. Saltz, "The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Security Infrastructure", the 2007 AMIA Annual Symposium, November, 2007. A short overview of the architecture of the caGrid security infrastructure, GAARDS.

• S. Langella, S. Hastings, S. Oster, T. Pan, A. Sharma, J. Permar, D. Ervin, B. Cambazoglu, T. Kurc, and J. Saltz, "Sharing Data and Analytical Resources Securely in a Biomedical Research Grid Environment", J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008;15:363-373. A longer overview of the GAARDS infrastructure with application example.

• S. Langella and K. Modi. GAARDS Security Infrastructure Updates. Technical Report, the Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, 2008. An overview of recent updates to the GAARDS infrastucture.