CaGrid
Encyclopedia
The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, or caBIG
is an initiative of the National Cancer Institute
, part of the National Institutes of Health
. The caGrid computer network and software support caBIG.
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 federated environment with widely accepted standards and shared tools. Driven primarily by scientific use cases from the cancer research community, caGrid provides the core enabling infrastructure necessary to compose the Grid of caBIG. It provides the technology that enables collaborating institutions to share information and analytical resources efficiently and securely, while also allowing investigators to easily contribute to and leverage the resources of a national-scale, multi-institutional environment.
, produced by the Globus Alliance
.
, and provides a standards-based platform for hosting caBIG-related tools. It also serves as a caBIG information source. Through the caGrid Portal, users have instant access to information about caBIG participants, caGrid points of contact (POCs), and caGrid-related news and events.
CaBIG
The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid is an open source, open access information network with the mission of enabling secure data exchange throughout the cancer community...
is an initiative of the National Cancer Institute
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute is part of the National Institutes of Health , which is one of 11 agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NCI coordinates the U.S...
, part of the National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
. The caGrid computer network and software support caBIG.
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 federated environment with widely accepted standards and shared tools. Driven primarily by scientific use cases from the cancer research community, caGrid provides the core enabling infrastructure necessary to compose the Grid of caBIG. It provides the technology that enables collaborating institutions to share information and analytical resources efficiently and securely, while also allowing investigators to easily contribute to and leverage the resources of a national-scale, multi-institutional environment.
caGrid Core Infrastructure
Though caGrid is a suite of products, typically caGrid refers to the core Infrastructure.Globus Toolkit
caGrid uses version 4.03 of the Globus ToolkitGlobus Toolkit
The Globus Toolkit, currently at version 5, is an open source toolkit for building computing grids developed and provided by the Globus Alliance.-Standards implementation:The Globus Toolkit is an implementation of the following standards:...
, produced by the Globus Alliance
Globus Alliance
The Globus Alliance is an international association dedicated to developing fundamental technologies needed to build grid computing infrastructures...
.
caGrid Portal
The caGrid Portal is a Web-based application built on Liferay Portal that enables users to discover and interact with the services that are available on the caGrid infrastructure. Portal serves as the primary visualization tool for the caGrid middlewareMiddleware
Middleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...
, and provides a standards-based platform for hosting caBIG-related tools. It also serves as a caBIG information source. Through the caGrid Portal, users have instant access to information about caBIG participants, caGrid points of contact (POCs), and caGrid-related news and events.
Contributors
- Ohio State UniversityOhio State UniversityThe Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
- University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, Argonne National LaboratoryArgonne National LaboratoryArgonne National Laboratory is the first science and engineering research national laboratory in the United States, receiving this designation on July 1, 1946. It is the largest national laboratory by size and scope in the Midwest... - SemanticBits, LLC
- Ekagra Software Technologies
Criticism
In March 2011, the NCI published an extensive review of CaBIG (see http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-architecture/229401221, http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/bsa/bsa0311/caBIGfinalReport.pdf), which included a long list of problems with the program, and recommended that most of the software development projects should be discontinued.External links
Components
- Introduce Toolkit, also a Globus Incubator Project
- Data Services
- Metadata
- Security
- Credential Delegation Service (CDS)
- Dorian
- GAARDS
- Grid Grouper
- Grid Trust Service (GTS)
- WebSSO - Web Single Sign-on component, based on JASIG CAS