caBIG Tissue Banks and Pathology Tools - Priorities and Future

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caBIG Tissue Banks and Pathology Tools -
Priorities and Future

• Face to Face meeting Nov 2006

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TBPT Achievements

• Three multiuser database applications
• Each with two major releases
• Adopters fully engaged and contributing to
  development
• Integration with caGrid
• caTIES - gold level application
• caTRIP integration
• caTissue Core
• CAE model integration

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Priorities - TBPT Tools

• Refining caTissue Core/Suite
• Resolution based on real life utilization
• Clinical annotation of biospecimens
• Remaining diseases
• Clinical lab data
• Outcomes data
• Treatment
• Procurement and Processing
• Shipping and Receiving module
• Integration of the three applications
• Regulatory Compliance - HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11

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Priorities - adoption related

• Demonstration of adoption
• Verification of the applications
• Enterprise adoption model
• Prostate SPORE adoption
• Virtual biorepository
• Support mechanisms
• Training

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Priorities - new areas

• Tissue microarray solutions
• Whole slide imaging
• Image analysis

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Priorities - NCI programs

• Supporting compliance with Guidelines for NCI
  Supported Biorepositories
• caBIG compatibility of commercial software
• TCGA Biospecimen Core Resource
• Semantic integration
• Cooperative Group adoption
• NCI Community Cancer Center Program