NCRI Informatics Parallel Session International Convention Centre, Birmingham, 9th October 2006

Professor Richard Begent and Dr Ken Buetow	Professor Phil Quirke	Robin Clark

The NCRI Informatics Initiative hosted a parallel session on Cancer Informatics at the 2nd NCRI Conference in Birmingham. The session was chaired by Prof Richard Begent and showcased the progress of the Initiative to date and included presentations from an impressive list of experts in the field. The presentations from the session can be downloaded below:

	NCRI Informatics: How did we get here and where are we going? (PPT) Robin Clark
	The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG™): enabling the patient-centric molecular medicine revolution (PPT) Dr Ken Buetow
	Reducing the burden of information provision and data collection: a 21st century challenge (PPT) Monica Jones
	CancerGrid: tools for tissue-based research from clinical trials (PPT) Dr James Brenton
	Twenty first century clinical trials - a multidisciplinary approach (PPT) Prof Phil Quirke
	Mining cancer: data analysis needs standards too (PPT) Dr Paul Lewis (Proferred Paper presentation)

Congratulations to Lucy Brindle, the winner of the raffle for an iPod shuffle.