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Is use of caBIG tools mandatory for NCI-supported biospecimen resources?

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Is use of caBIG tools mandatory for NCI-supported biospecimen resources?

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The NCI does not intend to make use of cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG ) tools mandatory or for caBIG tools to replace commercial systems. Rather, the caBIG biospecimen resource management tool caTissue Suite is intended to interoperate with such systems, thus enabling electronic dialogue. caTissue Suite was designed to allow more sophisticated biospecimen tracking than simple database programs such as Excel.