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The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, or caBIG™, is a voluntary virtual informatics infrastructure that connects data, research tools, scientists, and organizations to leverage their combined strengths and expertise in an open environment with common standards and shared tools. The current test bed architecture of caBIG™, is dubbed caGrid. The software embodiment and corresponding documentation of this architecture constitute the caGrid 0.5 release. |
The caGrid 0.5 team is comprised of members from the following organizations:
- Ohio State University - Biomedical Informatics Department
(Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital & Richard J. Solove Research Institute) - Science Application International Corporation (SAIC)
- Panther Informatics
- Oracle Corporation
- Terrapin Systems
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB)
caGrid 0.5 is the first test-bed release of the grid infrastructure to support the caBIG™ community. The caGrid 0.5 software release contains tools for creating and deploying caBIG™-compliant grid services to the caGrid 0.5 infrastructure. The software infrastructure is designed to satisfy the use case requirements from the various caBIG™ Domain Workspaces. caGrid 0.5 is providing the necessary infrastructure for caBIG™ applications to leverage the following grid infrastructure capabilities:
- Indexing and Registry Services
- Metadata Management
- Common Data Elements
- Controlled Vocabulary Semantics
- XML Schema Management
- Security Services
- Discovery and Invocation
- Data Service Toolkit
- Analytical Service Toolkit
caGrid leverages the following existing technologies:
- Globus Toolkit (Version 3.2.1): Provides the core grid infrastructure and supports service deployment, service registry, invocation and secure communication
- Open Grid Services Architecture – Data Access and Integration (OGSA-DAI) (5.0): Provides core support for data services
- Cancer Data Standards Repository (caDSR): Repository for Common Data Elements
- Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS): Provides controlled vocabularies
- Mobius GME: Grid Repository for XML Schemas
As part of the caGrid 0.5 test bed release, there are six service nodes that are up and running they are:
- caArray - Microarray Data Services - Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Research Center at Georgetown University
- caArray - Microarray Data Services - NCICB
- rProteomics - Proteomics Analytical Services - Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
- PIR - Protein Information Resource - Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Research Center at Georgetown Univeristy
- caTIES - Cancer Text Information Extraction System - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- caBIO - Cancer Bioinformatic Data Service - NCICB
Additional Service Nodes will be added.
caGrid 0.5 FAQ's
caGrid 0.54 Browser Information - Desupported on or about January 1, 2008
The caGrid 0.54 browser is no longer supported. Please return to the main caGrid page that contains information about the latest production release of caGrid.
Users can also review the Users guide for an overview of caGrid-browser functionality and as a tutorial for caGrid-browser.
caGrid 0.54 Download Information
Documentation for caGrid 0.54
caGrid 0.54 Overview (New!)
caGrid 0.54 Release Notes
caGrid 0.5 Technical Guide
caGrid
0.54 Installation Guide
Presentations
Overall Architecture of caGrid
caGrid-arch-analytical.ppt
caGrid-arch-overview-advertise-discovery.ppt
caGrid-arch-overview-dataService-v0.5.ppt
caGrid-arch-overview-security-v0.5.ppt
caGrid-highlevel-overview.ppt
caGrid - API Specification Review
caGrid-api-analytical.ppt
caGrid-api-dataservice-v0.5.ppt
caGrid-api-discovery-metadata.ppt
caGrid-api-globus-v0.5.ppt
Semantic Metadata_081505.ppt
Deployment of caGrid
caGrid-deployment-installation.ppt
caGrid-deployment-local-metadata.ppt
caGrid-deployment-registration.ppt
caGrid-deployment-security-v0.5.ppt
Client Application Using Grid Services
Security Framework
Reference Implementations
caGrid_caArray_ver1.ppt
caGrid_Ref_Implementation_Presentation_005.ppt
caGrid_Ref_Implementation_RProteomics_ver4.ppt
caGrid_Ref_Implementation_caTIES Project.ppt
