A National Virtual Specimen Database for Early Cancer Detection

Access to biospecimens is essential for enabling cancer biomarker discovery. The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Early Detection Research Network (EDRN) comprises and integrates a large number of cancer research institutions into a network in order to establish a collaborative scientific environment to discover and validate disease markers. The diversity of both the institutions and the collaborative focus has created the need for establishing crossdisciplinary teams focused on integrating expertise in cancer research, computational and biostatistics, and computer science. Given the collaborative design of the network, the EDRN needed an informatics infrastructure. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the National Cancer Institute, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) teamed up to build an informatics infrastructure creating a collaborative, science-driven research environment despite the geographic and morphologic differences of the information systems that e...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CBMS
• Authors: Heather Kincaid, Sean C. Kelly, Daniel J. Crichton, Donald Johnsey, Marcy D. Winget, Sudhir Srivastava
• Keywords: Cancer Research, CBMS 2003, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Medical Imaging, National Cancer Institute