LabAnswer Named National Cancer Institute caBIG® Support Service Provider
LabAnswer has been named a licensed cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid® (caBIG®) Support Service Provider by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the categories of Help Desk Support, Deployment Support for caBIG Software Applications and Documentation, and Training Materials and Services. LabAnswer actively supports the caBIG® initiative and its programs to create an open source, open access information network connecting the cancer research community with shared tools and data by use of a common and united standards-based IT infrastructure.
LabAnswer is ready to assist research organizations by providing support for enterprise architecture, deployment, and long term help desk support. Recent innovative projects by LabAnswer include a fully integrated clinical trials management system, vaccine R&D architecture, bio-banking, pre-clinical R&D, laboratory information management systems (LIMS), electronic lab notebooks (ELN), and data migration projects. LabAnswer has developed service offerings, methodologies, and best practices that focus specifically on supporting research through IT including the architecture, deployment and support of world class enterprise laboratory informatics projects.
For more information on LabAnswer caBIG services, visit: http://www.labanswer.com/caBIG.asp
About caBIG®
caBIG® (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid®) was conceived by the National Cancer Institute as a standards-based interoperable nationwide network that provides a grid infrastructure, data repositories, analytic software, and policy guidelines to enable data sharing and collaboration across the biomedical research community. This infrastructure will speed reduce the burden of cancer, support improved patient outcomes, and accelerate the realization of personalized medicine in cancer and beyond.
cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid®, caBIG® and the caBIG Logo are trademarks of HHS used in connection with the National Cancer Institute’s caBIG® program.
About the National Cancer Institute
NCI leads the National Cancer Program and the NIH effort to dramatically reduce the burden of cancer and improve the lives of cancer patients and their families, through research into prevention and cancer biology, the development of new interventions, and the training and mentoring of new researchers.
For more information about cancer, please visit the NCI Web site at http://www.cancer.gov or call NCI’s Cancer Information Service at 1‐800‐4‐CANCER (1‐800‐422‐6237). More information about caBIG® Support Services Providers can be found at https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/esn/service_providers.
About LabAnswer
LabAnswer is a laboratory informatics consultancy that has the people, processes and experience to handle enterprise informatics projects of any scale. With the largest team of informatics consultants in the nation, we worked on over one hundred laboratory informatics projects in the last two years. Solutions can include single site implementations, global deployments and complete support outsourcing.
The focus of our work is largely FDA regulated industries involving bioinformatics in all phases of clinical trials (including cancer research), vaccine development, and bio-banking. We also do significant laboratory automation work in pharmaceutical manufacturing, medical research (including cancer and functionality offered by caBIG tools), medical device, public health, and forensics laboratories.
LabAnswer provides laboratory informatics services including the architecture, selection, construction, deployment, integration, migration, validation, and support of the following systems:
- Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
- Laboratory Instruments, PCs, Applications
- Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN)
- Data Archival or Scientific Data Management Systems (SDMS)
- Clinical Trials Management Systems (CTMS)
- Chromatography Data Systems (CDS)
- Bio-Banking / Bio-Repository Applications
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP Systems Integration)
- Many Others
For more information about LabAnswer – LABORATORY INFORMATICS please visit www.labanswer.com.
