ACGT is a European Union co-funded project aiming at developing open-source, semantic and grid-based technologies in support of post genomic clinical trials in cancer research. It addresses clinicians, bio-researchers as well as software developers' needs, providing an open platform where novel and powerful services can be offered and used by practitioners in the field.

The project has conceived an overall architecture for an integrated biomedical sciences platform. The infrastructure being developed uses a common set of services and service registrations for the entire clinical trial on cancer community.

The project has set up cross-disciplinary task forces to propose guidelines concerning issues related to data sharing, for example, legal, regulatory, ethical, and intellectual property, and is developing enhanced standards for data protection in a web (grid) services environment.

ACGT started in 2006 and ends in 2010, and there are 25 scientific institutions taking part in it, from all over Europe and form Japan. PSNC is responsible for providing the common grid platform and the testbed for the project. Besides, it leads the activity of designing the general system architecture.

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