Cancer experts choose Taverna

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The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project is an Open Source information network supporting cancer researchers. The project’s current workflow service has proven difficult to use, so they are replacing it with Taverna, which is well known for its ease of use.

caBIG allows researchers to efficiently share, discover, integrate, and process disparate clinical and research data. A comprehensive investigation showed that Taverna’s features met caBIG’s requirements perfectly, especially the fact that non-IT specialists find Taverna very easy to use.

To make Taverna aware of caBIG’s Globus Toolkit 4 services and to make services accessible by Taverna at runtime, caBIG and myGrid developed a GT4 plugin for Taverna.

Over the coming months, the myGrid team will be visiting caBIG and working with them to further the integration of their system with Taverna.

Franck Tanoh

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