# Presentation: 033989

## caBIG Town Hall Meeting

-             January 24, 2005
-      2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EST)

## QUESTION #1:

**It seems that much of the direction of the caBIG effort is being driven by computer scientists and bioinformaticians, with an intense, highly-controlled focus on meeting the development process requirements.  (a) What mechanisms and processes are in place to ensure that the net result (the grid and its components) will actually be found to be essential to researchers and clinicians located at NCI-designated cancer institutions, and (b) Are there plans to go beyond the ‘adopter’ site mechanism and to formally fund collections of beta testers for each component?**

## QUESTION #2:

**When will the next round of calls for proposals be out?**

## QUESTION #3:

**How will caBIG Participants be able to defend to their home institutions that caBIG funded effort is worthwhile – and that it should count toward tenure – if the funding does not include any overhead?**

## QUESTION #4:

**Could you please let the caBIG community know that their papers are welcome for consideration for peer-reviewed publication in our new, online, open-access journal, CANCER INFORMATICS?  The inaugural volume will include contributions from bioinformaticians and computational biologists from both EDRN-funded and caBIG-funded sites and will appear sometime in early 2005.  The main body of reviewers for caBIG papers will be caBIG and EDRN participants.  Link: http://www.libertasacademica.com/**

## Question #5:

**I know that there are some workspaces looking into this problem, but are there any general rules for (journal) publications that come out of caBIG-supported research?**

## QUESTION #6:

**What efforts are being made to incorporate plans for (a) human-to-animal comparative research, and (b) preclinical drug studies?**

## QUESTION #7: 

**Please clarify the path a deliverable follows from the time it is checked into CVS, through various approvals, notation of approval in caMP, and approval of an invoice.   Who is involved, and what is the expected timeframe?**

## Question #8:

**What is the status of modification of the caBIG Compatibility Matrix?**

## Question #9:

-  **(a) Would caBIG consider contracting with commercial companies to develop software that would be put in the public domain?**
** ****(b) Would caBIG consider contracting with commercial companies to develop software that would be free to non-commercial users?**

## Question #10:

**The contact and organization lists on the workspaces' web sites are very out date – what will be done to keep them current?**

## Question #11:

**We are now implementing caCORE in the Windber Research Institute. The questions are therefore focused on caCORE which we hope you could cover.**
**1)  What is the relationship between caCORE and caBIG? Our understanding is that the former is part of the latter.**
**2)   caBIO database does not appear to be a relational database. Is it true? Why?**
**3)   How often do you update the databases of the deliverable version? Schedule of release?**
**4)   There are many data errors. For examples, some views cannot work, and some data are wrong. **