The UK National Cancer Research Institute's ONIX system (ONcology Information eXchange) is now available for use by the cancer research community. ONIX (ONcology Information eXchange) enables scientists and clinicians to search through and access international research data held online – to improve the flow of cancer research information between individuals, institutions and organisations.
ONIX is a free-to-use system that provides researchers and clinicians with the ability to simultaneously search across multiple cancer-related research databases and filter and download the results. The system also includes a thesaurus to aid in searching and a Resource Catalogue. ONIX can be found at: [http://www.ncri-onix.org.uk/].
ONIX will be further refined - driven by user feedback - until at least March 2010.
For more information about ONIX visit [http://www.cancerinformatics.org.uk].