Previous caGrid In Action Articles

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research Consortium

• TRITOn: Translational Informatics Research Platform by Bill Stephens

The Translational Information Research Information Omnibus (TRITOn) is designed and implemented as an integrative translational research information management platform. The development of TRITOn is supported by an NCI-funded re-engineering effort of the software used by the Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research Consortium (CLL-CRC; http://cll.ucsd.edu/).

The TRITOn application will be comprised of a collection of caGrid services using the caCORE SDK Local API, service controllers and a web application using the Google Web Toolkit.

Roswell Park

• caGrid and caB2b: Grid Enabling Non-caBIG Data Sources by Ken Quinn

A proof of concept pilot project was initiated in which the caGrid technology and infrastructure would be used to link and extract data from “non-caBIG” disparate data sources. In essence, this pilot would demonstrate the capabilities of federated queries for data retrieval and the creation of a virtual data warehouse.

The goal for the project was to successfully demonstrate federated queries against three internal databases: LIMS Tissue Bank (biospecimens), DBBR Sample Inventory (blood specimens), and ERS Cancer Registry system (tumor registry).

caTissue and caB2B

• caTissue Suite and caBench-to-Bedside (caB2B): Managing and querying for biospecimens on the caGrid by by Rakesh Nagarajan 1, Poornima Govindrao 1, Mukesh Sharma 1, Amy Brink 1, David Mulvihill 1, Sachin Lale 2, Srikanth Adiga 3, Mark Watson 1

1 Washington University in Saint Louis, Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center
2 Persistent Systems
3 Krishagni Solutions

RODS - December 31, 2009

• Grid Computing at the Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance Laboratory by Jeremy U. Espino, M.D., Director of Information Technology and Open Source Software Development at University of Pittsburgh
• The RODS laboratory at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh has written open-source software that addresses the need for timely outbreak detection. The RODS system is designed to support the collection and management of public health surveillance data including patient visits to hospitals.

TROPIX - September 16, 2009

• The Research Optimizer for Project Information eXchange, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
• TROPIX is Minnesota Supercomputing Institute's first open source project based on the caGrid software infrastructure. TROPIX is a project to build a federated grid between MSI and the Mayo Clinic that enables researchers to securely search for and share data with collaborators and search for and request laboratory services provided at each institution.