caGrid Portal

Application Description

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. The portal serves as the primary visualization tool for the caGrid middleware and provides a standards-based platform for hosting caBIG-related tools. It also serves as a caBIG information source. Using the caGrid portal, the user has instant access to information about caBIG participants, caGrid points of contact (POCs), and caGrid-related news and events.

Project Description

Client: NCI

Joshua Phillips led the caGrid Portal project, acting as architect and developer. It was based on JSR 168 portlet specification, so it would be a highly extensible and configurable application.

Version 2.0 caGrid Portal was successfully released in Jan 2008. The next phase of development is currently under way under the leadership of Joshua Phillips and the lead developer Manav Kher.

In its current state caGrid offers several features such as: