caBIG™ – cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid
https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/caGrid/
The goal of cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid caBIG™ is to develop applications and the underlying systems architecture that connects together data, tools, scientists and organizations in an open federated environment. In meeting this goal, caBIG™ will necessarily bring together data from many and diverse data sources. The underlying service oriented infrastructure for caBIG is caGrid. caGrid implements grid technologies and methodologies that enable local organizations to have ultimate control over access and management. caGrid 1.1, released in September, 2007, includes important security features, based on security policies and procedures from the caBIG™ Security Working Group, to enable data sharing across the caBIG™ Federation. It builds on and enhances earlier versions. The caGrid 0.5 “test bed” infrastructure was released in September, 2005, and included the initial set of software tools to effectively realize the goals of caBIG™. The release of caGrid version 1.0 in December, 2006, provided the implementation of the required core services, toolkits and wizards for the development and deployment of community provided services, APIs for building client applications, and some reference implementations of applications and services available in the production grid. caGrid enables numerous complex usage scenarios but its basic technical goals are to: enable universal mechanisms for providing interoperable programmatic access to data and analytics in caBIG™, create a self-described infrastructure wherein the structure and semantics of data can be programmatically determined, and provide a powerful means by which resources available in caBIG™ can be programmatically discovered and leveraged. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.