Introduction to caBIG and caBIG dotNET

The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG), dubbed the WWW of Cancer Research, is a National Cancer Institute informatics project that is likely to become the authoritative source of knowledge related to cancer. caBIG is built on a host of open-source Java Technologies including Globus Toolkit, Tomcat, and Ant.

caBIG dotNET is an open-sourced web-service and client API we've developed to expose high-level caBIG Java APIs to the .NET community. The official caBIG dotNET server is 67.15.68.28. More info about caBIG dotNET

What is the xl-caBIG Smart Client and Smart Client Mobile?

The xl-caBIG Smart Client is a set of extensions to Microsoft Excel 2003 that gives scientists a graphical interface for accessing caBIG data-services. It provides users intuitive access to caBIG by leveraging their intimacy with the Windows environment and Excel's statistical tools. More info about the xl-caBIG Smart Client

Screenshot of xl-caBIG Smart Client v 0.1
Screenshot of xl-caBIG Smart Client v 0.1

xl-caBIG Smart Client Mobile translates into caBIG access on a wide range of computing devices including PDAs and mobile phones. This "data intimacy" allows on-the- spot hypothesis testing no matter where is the spot; thus replacing the proverbial "restaurant napkin sketches". More info about the xl-caBIG Smart Client Mobile

Screenshot of xl-caBIG Smart Client Mobile v1.0
Screenshot of xl-caBIG Smart Client Mobile v1.0

This project is funded by a grant Microsoft Research Smart Clients for eScience. All code released under BSD open-source license. All written materials released under the Open Content License.