Dear NBIA Users,
 
We are pleased to announce the release of version 4.4 of the National Biomedical Imaging Archive (NBIA), available at http://imaging.nci.nih.gov.

Some of the new features included in this release are:

-           Capability to create a Shared List, which allows a logged-in user to create a saved list of images which can be easily shared with colleagues or published in journal articles where he/she wants to link to his/her data.  It can be created based on cases in the data basket or by uploading a CSV list of the series UIDs for the images.

-           Capability to search a Shared List, which allows any user (public or logged-in users) to search a shared list (exact name) and add the list content into the data basket for download.

-           Redesign QC Tool to improve performance and usability.

-           Redesign Remote/Federate search to discover the remote NBIA nodes automatically.  Provides the searchable terms of each node. The remote search functions is limited to the simple/advanced search only in this release.

-           Two tier delete process* The curator set one or more image series status as "To be deleted" via redesigned QC tool

•  The super curator review the series marked as "To be deleted", and approve the deletion or not.
•  The actual deletion will happen at a system configured time.
  -           Integration with collection description.  The administrator is able to modify the description of the collection with a rich text editor implemented in NBIA
  

Detailed release notes can be found here.

For groups interested in installing NBIA 4.4 locally, the full installation package as well as an upgrade installer and associated documentation are available at our distribution site: https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/frs/?group_id=312.

As always, support is available via email, ncicb@pop.nci.nih.gov, or by telephone, (301)451-4384, toll free (888)478-4423