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Title: caGrid 1.0 : an enterprise Grid infrastructure for biomedical research.

Journal Article · · J. Am. Inform. Assoc.

To develop software infrastructure that will provide support for discovery, characterization, integrated access, and management of diverse and disparate collections of information sources, analysis methods, and applications in biomedical research. Design: An enterprise Grid software infrastructure, called caGrid version 1.0 (caGrid 1.0), has been developed as the core Grid architecture of the NCI-sponsored cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG{trademark}) program. It is designed to support a wide range of use cases in basic, translational, and clinical research, including (1) discovery, (2) integrated and large-scale data analysis, and (3) coordinated study. Measurements: The caGrid is built as a Grid software infrastructure and leverages Grid computing technologies and the Web Services Resource Framework standards. It provides a set of core services, toolkits for the development and deployment of new community provided services, and application programming interfaces for building client applications. Results: The caGrid 1.0 was released to the caBIG community in December 2006. It is built on open source components and caGrid source code is publicly and freely available under a liberal open source license. The core software, associated tools, and documentation can be downloaded from the following URL: <https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/caGrid>.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Cancer Inst.; State of Ohio Board of Regents Grants; Ohio State Univ. Comprehensive Cancer Center
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
927751
Report Number(s):
ANL/MCS/JA-60704; TRN: US200816%%1199
Journal Information:
J. Am. Inform. Assoc., Vol. 15, Issue 2 ; Mar./Apr. 2008
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH