caBIG - 5 Useful Online Biology Research Tools

There are huge amounts of data from worldwide cancer research. So much, perhaps, that individual research sites would have a tough time managing it all on their own. With caBIG, however, there are plenty of ways to share and easily access such data without the burden of keeping it all in-house.

The information technology network provides researchers all over the country with free access to numerous collections of biological data as well as tools to manage and analyze the information. Those available data include studies from the Cancer Genome Atlas project, more than 3 million medical images and more than 2 million biological specimens. The program, founded in 2004, is paid for by the National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics.