What is caBIG ?
One of the most challenging areas for biospecimen resources has been the absence of information technology tools and infrastructure to facilitate the appropriate collection, processing, archiving, and dissemination of biospecimens to the research community, not only within an individual medical institution but in a network across multiple institutions. The NCI cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG ) is an enterprise designed to create infrastructure that will facilitate the exchange of data and access to programs among cancer investigators by developing informatics tools to support the collection, annotation, storage, and dissemination of high-quality biospecimens. One of the main goals of caBIG is to provide guidance on uniform, nonredundant sample nomenclature for biospecimen annotation; comprehensive, technology-driven biospecimen tracking procedures; and informatics systems interoperability that will allow queries across multiple biospecimen resources or networks. These tools w
