# Presentation: 370004

## caBIGTM Tool Overview caTissueCore: caBIGTM’s tissue bank repository tool for biospecimen inventory, tracking, and basic annotation

**Key Stakeholders Involved:**
- Tissue Banks and Pathology Tools (TBPT) Workspace
- Developer: Washington University
- Adopters: Dartmouth College, Duke University, Indiana University, Thomas Jefferson University, University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, Wake Forest

## caTissueCore Overview

- Brief Description of caTissueCore
- caTissue Core is caBIGTM’s tissue bank repository tool for biospecimen inventory, tracking, and basic annotation.
- This tool permits users to track the collection, storage, quality assurance, and distribution of specimens as well as the derivation of new specimens from an existing one.
- It also allows users to find and request specimens or storage locations with specific characteristics.
- Primary User Groups/Beneficiaries:
- Pathologists
- Tissue Bankers
- Registrars

## Tool Installation & Usage Overview

- Installation Requirements
**JBoss**: version 4.0.0
**MySQL** 4.1.10-nt
**Oracle**: version 9i or 10g
**ANT** (Apache)
**JRE** (Java Runtime Environment), version 1.4.2 or higher
**Mail server access**

## Releases and Schedule

- Current Release Information
- caTissueCore v1.0.1 - Final release: June 2006
- Silver level compatible
- Future Development Schedule
- caTissueCore v1.1
- Future release schedule:
- Alpha release: September 2006;  Final release: November 2006
- Planned enhancements, or modules under development:
- Storage container changes; Specimen Aliquoting; Simple and Advanced Query modules
- caTissue Suite v1.0
- Future release schedule
- Alpha release: November 2006; Final release: March 2007
- Maturity Level: Gold Level compatibility (Grid Enabled)

## Tool/Resources & Support

- Washington University hosts a caTissueCore website at _[http://](http://catissuecore.wustl.edu/)__[catissuecore.wustl.edu](http://catissuecore.wustl.edu/)__[/](http://catissuecore.wustl.edu/)_ - Website contains both a Demo of the tool, and links to both “stable” and “most recent” source code.
- Supporting documentation on caBIG website includes: Deployment Guide; End User Manual; and Release Notes
- The **NCICB Application Support Group** is also available by phone, e-mail, or web-based submittal forms.

## Workspace Contacts and Other Links

- TBPT Workspace Lead
- Juergen Klenk (_[klenk_juergen@bah.com](mailto:klenk_juergen@bah.com)__) _

**Bi-Weekly TBPT Workspace calls**
- Objective: TBPT Project and caBIG Program updates
- Schedule: 12-1 PM ET, 1st and 3rd Monday of each month
- Dial-in: 888-283-8679
- Passcode: 5746946
- _[http://ncicb.centra.com](http://ncicb.centra.com/)_
- Meeting ID: TBPT

**Monthly TBPT Newcomer calls **
- Objective: Bringing newcomers up to speed with the TBPT workspace.
- Schedule: 12-1 PM ET, 2nd Monday of each month
- Dial-in: 888-283-8679
- Passcode: 8209848
- _[http://ncicb.centra.com](http://ncicb.centra.com/)_
- Meeting ID: newcomer

- Ways to become involved with the Tissue Banks and Pathology Tools (TBPT) Workspace
- Subscribe for the TBPT LISTSERV at _[https://list.nih.gov/archives/cabig_tbpt-l.html](https://list.nih.gov/archives/cabig_tbpt-l.html)_.
- Visit the caBIGTM TBPT website: _[https://](https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/TBPT)__[cabig.nci.nih.gov](https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/TBPT)__[/workspaces/TBPT](https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/TBPT)_
- Dial-in to our bi-weekly workspace calls, or monthly newcomer calls.  Call-in Information:

- NCI Facilitator
- Ian Fore (_[forei@mail.nih.gov](mailto:forei@mail.nih.gov)__)_