caGrid is the underlying service-oriented infrastructure that supports the National Cancer Informatics Program (NCIP). Driven primarily by scientific use cases from the cancer research community, it caGrid provides the necessary core infrastructure to facilitate interoperability.
caGrid provides the technology that enables collaborating institutions to share information and analytical resources efficiently and securely, while also allowing investigators to easily contribute to and leverage the resources of a national-scale, multi-institutional environment.
caGrid2 is an open source project development in JAVA, and levereages or supports:
- WS* web service standards
- SHA2 digest algorithm for PKI certificates
- Central Authentication Service (CAS, from JA-SIG)
- Cancer Data Standards Repository (caDSR)
- Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS)
- Globus Toolkit v. 4.0.3
- Grouper (from Internet2)
- Taverna
- Persistent URLs (PURLs)
caGrid2 is distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License. Please see the NOTICE and LICENSE files for details.
You will find more details about caGrid-core in the following links:
* Mailing List: https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=cagrid_users-l
* JIRA: https://tracker.nci.nih.gov/browse/CAGRID
* Wiki: https://wiki.cagrid.org
* https://github.com/NCIP/caGrid2
Please join us in further developing and improving caGrid2-wsrf