Version 1.1 Of The CaBIG(R) Clinical Trials Suite Now Available

Main Category: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials
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Article Date: 10 Nov 2008 - 8:00 PDT

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The National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT) is pleased to announce the availability of Version 1.1 of the caBIG® Clinical Trials Suite. The caBIG® Clinical Trials Suite is a comprehensive set of caGrid-enabled tools that securely support clinical trials activities, including registering and tracking patients, managing patient activities and calendars, reporting and tracking adverse events, reviewing laboratory data, transferring data to between applications, capturing and cleaning the clinical data, and analyzing and reporting on the collected data. The components in the 1.1 bundle are:

- Clinical Participant Registry (C3PR) (version 2.5.2) - A tool for managing clinical trial patient enrollment data across multiple clinical trials, organizations and sites (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/tools/c3pr).

- Patient Study Calendar (PSC) (version 2.3.3) - A tool for creating and editing study calendar templates, generating and viewing prospective calendars of patient activities, tracking activities as they occur, and managing patient calendars as they change during a study (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/tools/PatientStudyCalendar).

- Adverse Event Reporting System (caAERS) (version 1.5.1) - A tool for collecting, managing, processing and reporting routine and serious adverse events that occur during clinical trials (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/tools/caAERS).

- Clinical Data Exchange (caXchange) (version 1.5.0) - A configurable hub for exchanging clinical trial information between applications and systems. (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/tools/LabIntegrationHub)

- CTODS Lab Viewer (version 1.5.0) -The Lab Viewer interface allows users to view and query laboratory data in the Clinical Trials Object Data System (CTODS) and select subsets of tests to be sent to a clinical trials database. This release also includes the Cancer Center Hub Client (CCHS) for batch loading labs and converting them from HL7 v2 to HL7 v3 (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/inventory/infrastructure/CTODS).

- C3D Connector (version 1.2.0) - A BRIDG-based adapter that allows applications in the caBIG® Clinical Trials Suite to share information with the C3D Clinical Data Management System. It can also be configured to operate with other Clinical Data Management Systems.

The tools in the caBIG® Clinical Trials Suite are intended for use by clinical researchers. Each tool provides an end user-oriented graphical user interface as well as a Java-based Application Programming Interface (API) and a caGrid compatible Grid Service for programmatic access to data. All of the applications are built on a common set of open-source technologies for ease of installation and maintenance.

The caBIG® Clinical Trials Suite can be downloaded, either as a single bundled distribution or as individual standalone components, from the NCICB Download Center (http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/download/cctslicenseagreement.jsp).

Additional information is available on the caBIG® Clinical Trials Compatibility Framework Fact Sheet, available at https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/1_ClinicalTrial_bundle_LOWres.pdf. Additionally, you can contact Bill Dyer (Clinical Trials Product Representative) at dyerwt@mail.nih.gov or NCICB Application Support at 301-451-4384 or toll free: 888-478-4423 or by e-mail at ncicb@pop.nci.nih.gov.

For more information about the caBIG® Clinical Trials Management Systems Workspace, please visit https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/CTMS/.

caBIG® Clinical Trials Compatibility Framework Fact Sheet