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ONIX The National Cancer Research Institute Informatics ONcology Information eXchange is an integrated, web-based, research environment where data, information and innovative tools are shared amongst scientists.

Its main function is to hold a central register of resources useful to cancer researches and to allow queries to be run simultaneously across the connected resources enabling users to quickly and easily find and retrieve information in its diverse forms.

The catalogue will not be confined to just biomedical data generated from research projects, but also data analysis tools, new research technology and projects involved in standards development.

One of the problems in developing the query tool is the lack of standardisation in the presentation of data, and much of the work of the NCRI Informatics Initiative has been investigating the way data can be represented to facilitate sharing. The Informatics Initiative is working with the relevant communities to identify, evaluate and promote the adoption of common standards, which will provide a robust foundation for successful data portability, integration, interoperability and reusability.