National Cancer Institute

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National Cancer Institute
NCI
US-NIH-NCI-Logo.svg
National Cancer Institute logo
Agency overview
Formed August 6, 1937
Agency executive Harold Varmis, Director
Website
Cancer.gov

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of 11 agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NCI coordinates the U.S. National Cancer Program and conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other activities related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer; the supportive care of cancer patients and their families; and cancer survivorship. As of July 2010, the current director of the NCI is Dr. Harold Varmus.

The National Cancer Institute has large intramural research programs in Bethesda, Maryland and NCI-Frederick at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. In addition, the NCI funds cancer researchers around the United States.

History

The United States Congress established the NCI by the National Cancer Institute Act, August 6, 1937, as an independent research institute. Congress then made the NCI an operating division of the National Institutes of Health by the Public Health Service Act, July 1, 1944. Congress amended the Public Health Service Act with the National Cancer Act of 1971 to broaden the scope and responsibilities of the NCI "in order more effectively to carry out the national effort against cancer." Over the years, legislative amendments have maintained the NCI authorities and responsibilities and added new information dissemination mandates as well as a requirement to assess the incorporation of state-of-the-art cancer treatments into clinical practice.

Technology and products

caLIMS

caLIMS is an open-source NCI-sponsored laboratory information management system (LIMS) that is compliant with NCI's caBIG initiative.[1]

Features

The following feature list(s) is/are derived solely from public, freely-available online information the vendor provides. A lack of a "Y" does not necessarily mean that the product doesn't have that feature. The lack of a "Y" could mean:
  • the vendor chose to not put relevant feature information online despite its existence in the product.
  • the vendor chooses to make the feature information available only to those who create an account or call/e-mail.
  • the feature information exists online to the public, but a URL could not be found to cite the existence of the feature.
  • the feature does not exist for the product.
A vendor's product may receive more confirmed features with the addition of more public information to the vendor's site and/or by providing a URL to a page or document that can act as a citation for the existence of the feature. Prospective buyers are highly recommended to contact the vendor directly to verify features as this list isn't authoritative, and product upgrades and changes happen rapidly in some cases.


Product: caLIMS
Sample, Inventory, and Data Management
Sample login and management? Y[2]
Sample tracking? Y[3]
Sample and/or result batching?
Task and event scheduling?
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?
Data and trend analysis?
Data and equipment sharing?
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Query capability? Y[4]
Import data?
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking? Y[5]
ELN support or integration?
Export data to MS Excel?
Export raw date?
Data warehouse?
Deadline control?
Production control?
Project and/or task management? Y[2]
Inventory management? Y[2]
Document creation and/or management? Y[2]
Case management?
Workflow management? Y[2]
Specification management?
Customer management? Y[2]
Billing management? Y[2]
Quality, Security, and Compliance
Regulatory compliance?
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security? Y[6]
Data normalization? Y[7]
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, Labeling, and Printing
Custom reporting? Y[2]
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode support? Y[2]
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration? Y[8]
Base Functionality
Administrator management?
Modular? Y[2]
Instrument interfacing and management? Y[2]
Mobile device integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Multilingual?
Network-capable? Y[6]
Web client or portal? Y[6]
Online or integrated help?
SaaS delivery option?
Usage-based cost?
Industries Served
biotechnology, clinical research, life sciences

Pricing

caLIMS is open-source and can be had for free.

Additional information

References

  1. ↑ "caLIMS v2 Background". National Cancer Institute. https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/caLIMS2/caLIMS+v2+Background. Retrieved 04 February 2012. 
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 "caLIMS v2 Wiki Home page". National Cancer Institute. https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/caLIMS2/caLIMS+v2+Background. Retrieved 04 February 2012. 
  3. ↑ "Managing Specimens v2". National Cancer Institute. https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/caLIMS2/Managing+Specimens+v2. Retrieved 04 February 2012. 
  4. ↑ "Managing Queries v2". National Cancer Institute. https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/caLIMS2/Managing+Queries+v2. Retrieved 04 February 2012. 
  5. ↑ "Managing External IDs v2". National Cancer Institute. https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/caLIMS2/Managing+External+IDs+v2. Retrieved 04 February 2012. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Introduction v2". National Cancer Institute. https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/caLIMS2/1+-+Introduction+v2. Retrieved 04 February 2012. 
  7. ↑ "Managing Naming Conventions v2". National Cancer Institute. https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/caLIMS2/Managing+Naming+Conventions+v2. Retrieved 04 February 2012. 
  8. ↑ "Sending Messages v2". National Cancer Institute. https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/caLIMS2/Sending+Messages+v2. Retrieved 04 February 2012. 

Further reading

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