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Seonho Kim, MEDNET USA Health Grid System Architect presented at The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid's (caBIGTM, https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/) 2007 annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on February 5 - 7, 2007.

Hundreds of participants gathered all around the world to share their experience and expertise. The participants span across various areas such as cancer centers, bioinformatics companies, cancer researcher community, health care community, computer science, and developer community. In the meeting, various scientific presentations, technology demonstrations, and interactive break-out sessions were featured. The MEDNET USA Health Grid architect, Seonho Kim, attended the meeting and presented his work with the project ePCRN research group (Electronic Primary Care Research Network, http://www.epcrn.org), his work is “A Secure Federated Health Data Query System for Primary Care Clinical Trials on the Grid”.

The caBIGTM is a biomedical information initiative launched by the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) to transform the way of doing cancer research by connecting geographically distributed cancer community seamlessly and enabling leveraging distributed valuable resources and accelerating new discoveries. The Grid technology is the core which realizes the goal of the caBIG™ initiative by providing a fabric, the underlying resources exploited and the means to access them, for informatics infrastructure. The Grid is a service for sharing applications and data, computing powers, data storage capacity and other computing resources over the Internet. A Grid can be seen as a parallel and distributed system enabling boundaryless sharing, selection, and aggregation of resources distributed across multiple administrative domains to turn the global network of resources into one vast virtual organization with seamlessly accessible pool of resources. Since the infrastructure and tools of caBIG™ are built on top of state-of-the-art information technology open standards, especially Grid technology, they are widely applicable to various other biomedical research community beyond the cancer community.

The most valuable thing noticed at the caBIGTM 2007 annual meeting is that it successfully demonstrates how effectively the caBIGTM, in other word Biomedical informatics, can enrich the healthcare community. One of main goals of the MEDNET USA vision is to enrich the quality of physician knowledge and services by improving physician connectivity to the global research community and accelerating physician’s access to research results improving patient care. The caBIG™ initiatives show that this goal can be successfully achieved by leveraging emerging Internet2/Grid technologies and valueless experience from other research communities.

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