© 2003 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 95, No. 3, 186-187,
February 5, 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press
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Serving Up Specimens: NASA-NCI Project Links Databases Across the Country
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Although space science may seem a long way from biomedicine, and NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) knows more about the surface of Venus than about the proteins on cell surfaces, JPL has made finding biologic samples for biomarker studies a lot easier, courtesy of software originally written to foster collaboration among planetary scientists.
The database collaboration is a product of the Informatics Working Group in the Early Detection and Research Network (EDRN), which is coordinated through the National Cancer Institutes Division of Cancer Prevention. EDRNs mission is to