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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2005 97(12):876-878; doi:10.1093/jnci/97.12.876
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Cancer Data Coming Soon to Laptops Everywhere

Karyn Hede

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It is easy to take for granted that a few keystrokes from a laptop in Ohio can retrieve in seconds data stored in an anonymous computer thousands of miles away. Day-to-day operations of countless businesses rely on this type of infrastructure that makes it possible to share information and for others to locate it. If it's possible to do it for education and commerce, why not for cancer research?

It was that simple question that launched a massive undertaking at the National Cancer Institute to create the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG), a $60 million project that its organizers like to call the "Internet of cancer."

Proponents of caBIG started with a simple, but daunting, goal: Create a seamless network of resources that makes available data from the entire spectrum of cancer research from genomic and microarray data to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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