We are seeing a watershed in caBIG software development- the appearance of caBIG® software products in more places, with ever more potential users. Konrad Rokicki's amazing caBIO iPhone app (link) represents a really, really cool working proof of concept, and opening up so many more possibilities! In a similar vein, caBIG developers at Ohio State and Emory are working on integrating the caBIG imaging tools with existing iPhone applications such as Osirix (link). Our own team is hard at work developing an open source iPhone front-end to the caTISSUE application, to facilitate tissue collection in the field, and there are many other developers we talked to at this year's caBIG Annual Meeting who are working on similar projects at various stages of maturity.
Added to all of this is some equally cool and significant work on developing a robust .NET platform for constructing and integrating caBIG software and tools (link). Be sure and check out the screencasts from this year's Hackathon. This kind of effort is critical for extending the caBIG concepts to the parts of the community that have committed to a Microsoft infrastructure. As the program matures, developing these kinds of bridges to the wider community will be increasingly important. Over the next couple of years, we hope to see all kinds of new applications running in new places - it will certainly be cool!
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