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Cancer Informatics: Assignment
A. Read the following
caBIG Primer
Sioutos NCI Thesaurus
Oster caGrid
B. Provide written answers to the following questions, to be
turned in prior to the Wed class, as per these instructions.
- What is caBIG, and how is it organized?
- How does the NCI Thesaurus fit into caBIG?
- Give an example of how the NCI Thesaurus represents a particular type of cancer.
- What is caGRID, what are its primary components, and how does it fit into caBIG?
- What is the caGrid query language and what are the basic elements of a query in this language?
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