NOTE the entire caGrid repository was migrated to capture the total release history, including all branches. Please do not checkout and use this repository, instead use the relevant cagrid-* github project.

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.

caGrid is an Open Source project written in Java, and makes use of:

• 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)

caGrid is distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License. Please see the NOTICE and LICENSE files for details.

You will find more details about caGrid 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/cagrid