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 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 [...]
tranSMART Foundation Silver Member the Hyve has won the Harvard Business School (HBS) Precision Trials Challenge. Harvard Business School (HBS) announced on the 20th of May 2016, that Dana-Farber’s MatchMiner has been named the winner of the Precision Trials Challenge. A joint developmental effort between Dana-Farber’s KSG group, located in Boston, headed by Ethan Cerami PhD, [...]
The tranSMART Foundation is happy to announce the availability of its Vendor Marketplace Directory. You can reach the Directory HERE or from the MARKETPLACE Menu item. This is a list of vendors who have voluntarily registered to offer their services to the tranSMART Community. These include vendors offering Data Services (Curation & Analysis), Platform Deployment [...]
tranSMART Foundation Silver Member IO Informatics is delighted to have been chosen to receive CIO Review’s Award for “20 Most Promising Data Integration Solution Providers of 2015.” Since their founding in 2013, they have focused on developing and applying the latest, most effective technologies for enterprise research data harmonization and deep search to help our partners and customers gain [...]
The tranSMART Foundation announced today the availability of the Beta version of the tranSMART Platform version 16.1. Details on how to participate in the Release beta program can be found HERE on the wiki pages. This largely a stability update will few functional changes to the Platform. Detailed release notes will be available soon. The [...]