cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid^® (caBIG^®)

CGEMS seeks to identify common genetic variants—single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs—that are associated with increased or decreased risk for various types of cancer. Once validated for quality, CGEMS data is made immediately available to the entire cancer research community via the National Cancer Institute’s cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid^® (caBIG^®) and dbGaP.

Making this rich resource available to other scientists and investigators will encourage the novel analysis of the data and stimulate new research that may lead to the development of strategies to prevent or treat these cancers.