TY - GEN
T1 - The cancer biomedical informatics grid (caBIG™)
T2 - 12th World Congress on Medical Informatics, MEDINFO 2007
AU - Niland, Joyce C.
AU - Townsend, R. Michael
AU - Annechiarico, Robert
AU - Johnson, Kimberly
AU - Beck, J. Robert
AU - Manion, Frank J.
AU - Robbins, Robert J.
AU - Chute, Christopher G.
AU - Vogel, Lynn H.
AU - Saltz, Joel H.
AU - Watson, Mark A.
AU - Casavant, Thomas L.
AU - Soong, Seng Jaw
AU - Bondy, Jessica
AU - Fenstermacher, David A.
AU - Becich, Michael J.
AU - Casagrande, John T.
AU - Tuck, David P.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Information explosion and new advances in high throughput experiments have challenged biomedical research, and suggested a future in which inter-institutional and international collaborations will be the norm. The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid is an ambitious initiative launched by the US National Cancer Institute to develop a network of tools, data, and researchers to support translational and clinical research in oncology, with an ultimate goal to improve cancer care for patients. The three year pilot phase of caBIG ends in 2007, and has engaged over 900 clinicians, scientists, and patient advocates as developers, adopters, and workspace participants. Progress has been demonstrated in creating tools and building prototype grid architecture for collaborative research. Accomplishments in the pilot phase set the stage for extension of the community into other biomedical domains and for federation of the caBIG enterprise with similar initiatives in other scientific areas and in other countries.
AB - Information explosion and new advances in high throughput experiments have challenged biomedical research, and suggested a future in which inter-institutional and international collaborations will be the norm. The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid is an ambitious initiative launched by the US National Cancer Institute to develop a network of tools, data, and researchers to support translational and clinical research in oncology, with an ultimate goal to improve cancer care for patients. The three year pilot phase of caBIG ends in 2007, and has engaged over 900 clinicians, scientists, and patient advocates as developers, adopters, and workspace participants. Progress has been demonstrated in creating tools and building prototype grid architecture for collaborative research. Accomplishments in the pilot phase set the stage for extension of the community into other biomedical domains and for federation of the caBIG enterprise with similar initiatives in other scientific areas and in other countries.
KW - biomedical informatics
KW - computer communication networks
KW - diffusion of innovation
KW - medical oncology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=60349131764&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:60349131764
SN - 9781586037741
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 330
EP - 334
BT - MEDINFO 2007 - Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 20 August 2007 through 24 August 2007
ER -