Survey Finds NCI's caBIG Fails to Impress Europe's Researchers

Staff Writer | genomeweb.com | October 7, 2011

The National Cancer Institute's Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid Infrastructure hasn’t had much of an impact in Europe, according to a report from the European Association for Cancer Research that sought to identify caBIG's penetration in European laboratories.

EACR based its conclusions on the results from an online survey that was sent out in January to 6,396 researchers who call Europe home. The survey was part of the Eurocancercoms project, which explores issues surrounding communication and dissemination of cancer information across Europe...