National Cancer Institute 

U.S. Department 

of HealtH anD 

HUman ServiceS 

national institutes 

of Health 

Lab Viewer is an open-source, Web-based application that is used to view laboratory data in transit 

between clinical source systems (typically in-house clinical chemistry laboratory systems) and clinical 

trials systems (typically Clinical Data Management Systems, or CDMS) when such transfers are 

established using the caBIG® Integration Hub via its Cancer Center Hub Client. Users may browse for 

laboratory activity by study, participant ID, and date range. When Lab Viewer is used in conjunction 

with the caBIG® Clinical Trials Suite, users can select lab values that are specified in the clinical 

protocol as labs that must be collected and send them to the CDMS through the caBIG

® Clinical 

Connector to automatically populate electronic Case Report Forms (eCRFs). Additionally, users can 

select out-of-range lab values (highlighted in red) to send an alert message to the Adverse Event 

Reporting System (caAERS) thereby indicating a potential adverse event. 

Lab Viewer 2.0 has been enhanced to leverage the National Cancer Institute’s services-based 

enterprise architecture. When users select study personnel and participating organizations in Lab 

Viewer they are selecting from a curated global list. Through this process, errors and inconsistencies 

are eliminated and standards are enforced. 

caBIG

® Lab Viewer 

Search, Display, and Share Clinical Laboratory 

Values to be Transferred from Clinical Chemistry 

Laboratory Systems to Clinical Trials Systems 

Categories of Use 

Clinical Trials 

Management 

Data Analysis 

& Statistical Tools 

Genome Annotation 

Infrastructure 

Microarrays 

Pathways 

Translational Research 

Vocabularies 

caBIG

®Lab Viewer interface 

Biospecimens Data Sharing Imaging Proteomics 
 

 

 

caBIG® Lab Viewer 

Search, Display, and Share Clinical Laboratory Values 

to be Transferred from Clinical Chemistry Laboratory 

Systems to Clinical Trials Systems 

Technical Overview 

•	Database	(PostgreSQL	

or Oracle) 

•	Application	container		

(Tomcat) 

•	 caGrid	(optional,	needed		

for multi-site interactions 

and deployment as part 

of the caBIG® Clinical 

Trials Suite) 

Other caBIG® 

Clinical Trials Suite 

Components 

•		caBIG® Adverse Event 

Reporting System (caAERS) 

•		caBIG® Central Clinical 

Participant Registry (C3PR) 

•		caBIG® Clinical Connector 

•		caBIG® Integration Hub 

•		caBIG® Patient Study 

Calendar (PSC) 

Features 

•		Features	a	user-friendly	interface

•	 Leverages	a	search	tab	to	retrieve	laboratory	activity	by	study	title	or	

identifier, participant name, patient identifier, and range of dates 

•	 Filters	lab	results	by	lab	test	name,	result	(in/out	of	range),	or	date	range

•	 Exports	lab	results	to	.CSV,	.XLS,	or	.XML	format

•	 Selects	and	sends	laboratory	data	sets	to	other	applications	in	the	caBIG® 

Clinical Trials Suite through the caBIG® Integration Hub 

•	 Views	site	and	investigator	details	for	a	study	(validated	through	NCI	

Enterprise Services) 

Resources 

https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/CTMS/KC/index. Tool Overview Page php/LabViewer 

Clinical Trials Management Systems (CTMS) Primary Workspace https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/CTMS/ 

CTMS Knowledge Center https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/CTMS/KC 

CTMS Forums https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/CTMS/forums 

https://list.nih.gov/archives/cabig_ctms_cond_sig.html CTMS LISTSERVS 

https://list.nih.gov/archives/cabig_ctms-l.html 

caBIG® Tool Inventory https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/inventory 

caBIG® Support Service Providers https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/esn/service_providers 

NCI Center for Bioinformatics ncicb@pop.nci.nih.gov Applications Support 

caBIG® Product Representative caBIGproductRep@nih.gov 

niH publication no. 10-7550 

printed february 2010 

caBIG

® Lab Viewer