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You can create a caIntegrator study by importing subject annotation study data, genomics data and imaging data , using You can incorporate a combination of spreadsheetspreadsheets/files and existing caGrid applications as source data. Each instance of caIntegrator can support multiple studies. As the manager creating a study, it is important that you understand the study well and that the data you wish to aggregate has been submitted to the applications whose data can be integrated in caIntegrator.

• Subject Annotation – Subject annotation data refers to pre-subject annotation, phenotypic, subject annotation, pathology or any other annotations associated with a subject.The subject annotation data should be available in CSV files, with a unique patient identifier in one column, one patient per row. Other relevant data can be supplied in other columns to be identified as annotations in the file from within caIntegrator. You, as the study creator, must have access to the subject annotation data file, as the file does not come from a caBIG^® repository.
• Genomic – To use caIntegrator to integrate array data, the data should be imported into caArray, either locally or in the CBIIT installation, using that system's data file import functionality. You must also have a mapping file in CSV format. This file indicates correlations between array files and the subjects in the subject annotation data files.
• Imaging – Imaging data should have been submitted to the NBIA grid node as public data, either locally or as part of the CBIIT NBIA installation. Image annotations, which includes include information about images provided by radiologists or other researchers can include such information as tumor size, tumor location, etc. It must be in CSV format, with unique image series IDs in one column (required) and annotation IDs in the second column. caIntegrator can map the images automatically, or alternatively , you can upload an image mapping file in CSV format. This file indicates correlations between subject annotation subjects or images in NBIA and subjects in the subject annotation data files.

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When you create a study:creating;creating:study;deploying studystudy, you must specify different data-types (subject annotation, array, image, etc), data sources (caGrid applications – caArray and NBIA) and map the data, (patient to sample, image series, etc.).

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