What role does the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG ) play in the area of biorepositories?
As part of its caBIG initiative, through the Tissue Banks and Pathology Tools Workspace, NCI is supporting the development 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. Such tools include caTISSUE, a software application that will eventually address all aspects of donor enrollment and informed consent, collection and tracking of samples; the Clinical Annotation Engine, which will address annotation of biospecimens with molecular and clinical data; and caTIES, which will allow extraction of structured data from free text pathology reports. Together, these tools will improve the capacity of researchers across the country to select and access appropriate samples for their research. caBIG tools are also designed with security considerations to support patient privac
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