caBIG®
caBIG® is a National Cancer Institute initiative to facilitate data sharing between members of the cancer research community. caGrid is infrastructure to support data and analysis ‘services’.
Work flows
Several Bioconductor work flows are available as caGrid analytic services; instances of these services are discoverable on the caGrid portal as those services that are hosted at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center here in Seattle.
Service documentation is available under ‘02 Bioconductor caGrid Services’. The functionality provided by the services is documented in the Service Documentation archive; the Installation Guide provides instruction on establishing your own instances.
The code for the services is in gforge.
The
RWebServices
package has a vignette on enabling web services on additional packages,
including how these are combined with the caGrid introduce infrastructure,
to create custom caGrid services from Bioconductor scripts.
Using services
caGrid services are SOAP-based, and are most easily accessed through a
java-based client built using caGrid introduce infrastructure. Each service
in gforge contains a demonstration client. Our local instance is no longer
available.