Andy Oram writes in EMR & HIPPA (HealthcaseScene.com) about the potential merger of the i2b2 Foundation with the tranSMART Foundation. Andy reflects "as a harbinger of progress in medicine, the announcement is very significant". Andy continues "Their timely merger shows that open source overcomes cultural and institutional barriers... Ultimately, they’ll contribute to the movement to target [...]
In a Press Release released today, the i2b2 Foundation and the tranSMART Foundation announced that they have signed a Letter of Intent to merge the two foundations. While no further details were announced, both management teams are working to complete the merger in the next few months. Together, the combined tranSMART and i2b2 foundations will enhance [...]
In citing a recent report from KPMG and another by PwC , Taren Grom talks about the need for collaboration in today's research and development activities for health care researchers. In PwC's report on Pharma in 2020, they talk about collaboration as a "do or die" situation. Grom goes on to discuss how the tranSMART [...]
The Hyve, Silver Member of the tranSMART Foundation, is offering three classes in this year's tranSMART Training Program on programming in the tranSMART environment. The first of these classes will be presented on Monday March 27th with the others coming later in the year, March 27th: How to get started with tranSMART development June 26th: [...]
The tranSMART Foundation announced the newest release of its tranSMART platform, version 16.2. This version includes significant contributions from numerous members of the tranSMART community and provides users with more advanced functionality to enhance their translational research studies. The newly developed features in version 16.2 include the SmartR plugin (ITTM/University of Luxembourg/eTRIKS), genomics-based cohort selection [...]
For its first training class in 2017, the tranSMART Foundation in cooperation with its Silver Member Rancho BioSciences has announced an "Introduction to the tranSMART Platform" training class. The class will be held on Monday January 30th at 11AM Eastern on its Go To Webinar service. Pre-registration is required and can be found HERE. The [...]
The tranSMART Foundation announces that Elsevier Science has become a Silver Member of the Foundation.
tranSMART 16.2 Available for Beta Testing The tranSMART platform v 16.2 is another milestone release continuing the process improvements from v16.1. This release brings a set of new features contributed by several organizations, including: SmartR, XNAT integration, HiDome genomics extensions, GWAS enhancements including PLINK integration, a link to IPA (QIAGEN), and the return of the Genome Browser and [...]
We welcome Boehringer Ingelheim as the newest Silver Member of the tranSMART Foundation. For more information on becoming a Member, CLICK HERE. If you want to find out how to get more involved with the Foundation, CLICK HERE.
EPAM has joined GeneDx and Rancho BioSciences as the newest 2016 Corporate Sponsor of the tranSMART Foundation. The generous support of the Corporate Sponsors allows the Foundation to offer its many events throughout the year. In particular for the remainder of 2016, they are supporting the Foundation's Symposium on i2b2 at Harvard Medical School on June [...]