Manchester Informatics News

The goal of the 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. To meet this goal, caBIG brings together data from many and diverse data sources. caGrid is the underlying service oriented infrastructure for caBIG.

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 services available in caBIG can be programmatically discovered and leveraged.

caGrid implements grid technologies and methodologies that enable local organizations to have ultimate control over access and management.

Workflow Improvements - Early Preview

caGrid 1.2 provides early preview of the ability to orchestrate caGrid services in a workflow using the Taverna workbench. Users can automatically download the caGrid plug-in from Taverna and use it develop workflows in the rich user interface provided by Taverna. The instructions on how to create a simple workflow using Taverna can be found in the caGrid users guide and on the caGrid wiki. This integration will be further enhanced in the future releases based on user feedback.

For further details on caGrid see https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/caGrid