Marty Humphrey

Research

Since August 2008, my research group has been participating in a cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Architecture WorkSpace Working Group to create a design to support caBIG and caGrid using .NET. More specifically, we have prototyped .NET-based clients and services that show proof-of-concept for future .NET-based caGrid services. This includes support for WSRF on .NET. More importantly, this project produces a comprehensive plan for how to utilize .NET in the future of caGrid. Clearly, a .NET-based implementation of caGrid would greatly enhance the options available to caGrid developers and deployers. We are making our tutorials and source code freely-available and open-source.  We have recently produced the first caGrid Data Service that uses the Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing platform.

You can find more information about this project here: caBIG Architecture Workspace .NET Working Group

Scientists are increasingly required to navigate and integrate large data sets. A single scientist operating alone often cannot find the relevant data he/she needs, sometimes due to the sheer volume of data. The goal of an e-science collaboration is to help one another in their singular or collective discoveries. However, when one person cannot sufficiently explain his/her steps and/or advice, such that others in the collaboration can easily find and understand it, the collaboration can degrade into a collection of researchers acting alone. The challenge of an e-science collaboration is to enhance the productivity of everybody participating.

In late September, 2007, my research group collaborating primarily with Catharine Van Ingen of Microsoft Research and Deb Agarwal of Berkeley National Lab went live with a collaboration space for FluxNet (aka FluxData). We invite you to explore the public area of this collaboration space. We will be authoring technical articles about the design and implementation of this in the near future.

Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG)

Collaborative Platforms for eScience

Marty Humphrey receives the 2009 caBIG Innovation Award on behalf of his research group. This award was presented at the 2009 caBIG Annual Meeting. From left: Dr. Ken Buetow (Associate Director of Bioinformatics and Information Technology, NCI), Marty Humphrey, Dr. John E. Niederhuber (Director, NCI)