SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- caGrid Client Demonstration Project
- Notice Date
- 1/26/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bldg 427, Room 12, Frederick, MD, 21702
- ZIP Code
- 21702
- Solicitation Number
- S06-185
- Response Due
- 3/1/2006
- Archive Date
- 3/16/2006
- Description
- THIS SOLICITATION REPLACES S06-167 POSTED ON 1/23/06 [To request a copy of this Request for Proposal (RFP), please contact Ms. Jennifer Thomas, 301-228-4004, thomasj@ncifcrf.gov.] The National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB) is seeking professional service expert(s) to work independently as well as directly with the NCICB project teams on the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG). These experts must have had previous experience in: grid computing, n-tier architecture design developing highly interactive end user applications; software and data model design; and robust software development methodology that optimizes for high quality deliverables. The contractor will include test plan development, software quality assurance procedures, and professional project management activities in its planning and execution. The goal of this project will be to demonstrate the usefulness of caGrid infrastructure as a platform to perform scientifically challenging investigations involving integration of data and analytical services from diverse research communities. The caGrid client will enable individual users to work on common platforms to access caGrid resources in real time from common data and analytical services. The client will have various configurations that support end users in the cancer biomedical research community. This application will ensure that all can access caGrid and serve as a platform for further development and innovation in the caBIG community. Background: The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, or caBIG, is a voluntary network or grid connecting individuals and institutions to enable the sharing of data and tools, creating a World Wide Web of cancer research (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov). The goal is to speed the delivery of innovative approaches for the prevention and treatment of cancer. The approach is to leverage existing technologies for the standardization of data representation and semantics coupled with common data integration architecture. As part of this effort, NCICB has developed and deployed a prototype grid caGrid (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/caGrid/) that enables the building of an open, multi-institutional data sharing, annotation, and analysis environment. caBIG ?Silver? compliant systems (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/guidelines_documentation) can become ?grid enabled? by registering and plugging onto the caGrid infrastructure. When the system is generated using the caCORE SDK (http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/core/SDK), no additional code is required to expose the data service on the grid. caGrid has service registry that supports advertisement and discovery of services based on common metadata. The services registered on the caGrid can be queried using a caBIG XML Query Language. Invocation of analytical service deployed on the grid is also available on the caGrid. caGrid specifies common interfaces and syntax requirements for registering and using grid services securely. It has tools to allow easy installation and deployment of Globus (http://www.globus.org/toolkit/), Open Grid Services Architecture-Data Access and Integration (OGSA-DAI), and Mobius Global Model Exchange services (http://projectmobius.osu.edu/overview.php). There is a web based user interface and thick client interface provided as part of caGrid to demonstrate the client APIs for accessing the grid services (http://cagrid-browser.nci.nih.gov/cagrid-browser/). caGrid leverages caCORE to provide the necessary semantic typing, modeling and metadata structures that define and constrain the contents of services in caGrid. The caGrid client demonstration project will leverage the caGrid infrastructure to support key caBIG program needs. To request a copy of this Request for Proposal (RFP), please contact Ms. Jennifer Thomas, 301-228-4004, thomasj@ncifcrf.gov.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Vendor site
- Record
- SN00973531-W 20060128/060126211854 (fbodaily.com)
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