caBIG Service Provider

SemanticBits is licensed by the National Cancer Institute as a caBIG Support Service Provider. We offer a team of award winning professionals who have a deep understanding of the caBIG technology stack and caBIG compatibility guidelines. SemanticBits has extensive experience and expertise in caBIG software development, enterprise systems and architecture, system deployment and maintenance, standards, regulatory compliance, and management. We are actively working on a number of caBIG projects in collaboration with Duke University, Wake Forest University, Northwestern University, and CALGB. Please contact us for more information.

caBIG Support Services

The types of caBIG services that SemanticBits supports includes:

  • Software Adaptation: adapting of existing software to meet specific goals in a new scenario
  • Software Enhancement: modifying of existing software to add or improve functionality, as well as bring existing software up to caBIG compliance
  • Software Development: developing new software to meet an organization's needs
  • Deployment Support: supporting the deployment of software and hardware
  • Data Management and Transformation: the management, migration, and modification of data
  • Security Management: the management, configuration, and optimization of security infrastructure, hardware, and software, such as GAARDS
  • Software Management: the management, configuration, and optimization of software
  • Software and Data Hosting: hosting of software and data
  • Grid Enablement: grid enabling existing or new software and hardware
  • Documentation Drafting: writing and updating end user documentation, help documentation, installation and administration guides, use case documents and requirements specifications, etc.
  • Managing Training Materials: the development and collection/management of documentation, self-guided presentations, recorded webinars, etc.

Service Categories

SemanticBits is licensed in the following categories:

Adaptation and Enhancement of caBIG-Compatible Software Applications
This service category supports caBIG-compatible software development and includes adaptation of existing systems for caBIG compatibility, custom enhancements to existing caBIG tools that satisfy specific user-driven requirements while maintaining caBIG compatibility, and de novo development of caBIG-compatible applications and tools. 

Deployment Support for caBIG Software Applications Deployment
Includes onsite or offsite procurement and provisioning of hardware, operating systems and other software, such as application servers and databases, along with installation and configuration of caBIG software, legacy data transformation and migration. Deployment support also includes integration of multiple caBIG tools and caBIG-compatible applications through open application programming interfaces (APIs). Possible services include data management, security services, hosting, performance tuning, network connectivity, grid enablement and maintenance of web server/database and application specific administrative IT tasks.

Documentation and Training Materials and Services
This service category includes development of documentation and training materials and the provision of training services for caBIG software applications, caBIG compatibility for existing systems, and use of caCORE infrastructure.

caBIG Projects and Clients

Some of our caBIG compliant projects include:

  • caAERS: The Cancer Adverse Event Reporting System (caAERS) is an open source software tool that is used to collect, process, and report adverse events that occur during clinical trials.
  • C3PR: The Cancer Central Clinical Participant Registry (C3PR) is a web-based application used for end-to-end registration of patients to clinical trials.
  • PRO-CTCAE: The Patient Reported Outcomes Version of the Common Terminology Criteria Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE) system is an integrated item bank and electronic platform for patient self-reporting of adverse symptom events in cancer treatment trials.
  • PSC: caGrid is open source grid software infrastructure aimed at enabling multi-institutional data sharing and analysis.
  • caGrid Portal: The caGrid Portal is a Web-based application that enables you to discover and interact with the services that are available on the caGrid infrastructure.
  • caTRIP: caTRIP is a translational research system for the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project that allows users to post a query across a number of caBIG data services and view the results in a user-friendly interface.
  • Knowledge Center: SemanticBits plays pivotal roles supporting the Knowledge Centers for Clinical Trials Management Systems, as well as Vocabularies and Common Data Elements.
  • CCTS: The caBIG Clinical Trials Suite (CCTS) is an enterprise clinical trials system being designed primarily for use in trial sites. The suite is comprised of a collection of interoperable modules covering a broad range of key areas in cancer clinical trials management.

Some of SemanticBits's clients and partners/collaborators include: