NCIP/gsid

Name: gsid

Owner: National Cancer Informatics Program

Description: The Global Specimen Identifier (GSID) Service is a NCI Enterprise Service. Global Specimen Identifer (GSID) is defined as the entity that contains a Globally Unique Idenitifer (UUID) and associated attributes that consists of a name value pair. A UUID is defined as a 16 byte identifier that is intended to be globally unique. There are 3 x 10^38 unique identifiers that can be obtained through the service.

Created: 2013-05-29 17:24:02.0

Updated: 2013-10-17 23:20:16.0

Pushed: 2013-07-12 18:11:46.0

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Language: Java

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README

Welcome to the Global Specimen Identifier (GSID) Project!

Applications in clinical and life-science research need to manage information associated with a specimen within an institution as well as across many organizations. For specimen life-cycle tracking, NCI Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) has worked with the biorepository and cancer research community to develop a Global Specimen Identifier Service (GSID). GSID can be incorporated by biorepositories involved in multi-site efforts supported by caTissue Suite open source, home-grown, and commercial biospecimen management systems. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program has evaluated and provided input into this GSID for their use to associate a unique identifier to each specimen and each derivative.

GSID will enable biorepositories to:

• Support the individual researcher by providing a framework for cross referencing a specimen to the specimen's history and other findings on that specimen
• Provide a source of certified globally unique identifier
• Certify externally generated IDs are globally unique
• Maintain relations between GSIDs, such as source to aliquot, or children to multiple parents.

The Global Specimen Identifier (GSID) Service is a NCI Enterprise Service. Global Specimen Identifer (GSID) is defined as the entity that contains a Globally Unique Idenitifer (UUID) and associated attributes that consists of a name value pair. A UUID is defined as a 16 byte identifier that is intended to be globally unique. There are 3 x 10^38 unique identifiers that can be obtained through the service.

It is developed in Java using caGrid, Hibernate, Castor, Apache Commons technologies.

The Global Specimen Identifier is distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License. Please see the NOTICE and LICENSE files for details.

You will find more details about the GSID in the following links:

• Community Wiki
• Issue Tracker
• Code Repository

Please join us in further developing and improving Global Specimen Identifier (GSID).