Wakefield, Massachusetts – May 12, 2014 – The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, announced today that a poster presented by Boehringer Ingelheim and Thomson Reuters at the 2014 Bio-IT World Conference based on the tranSMART platform won the CHI Poster Competition Award.

Titled “A workflow based tranSMART system enabling scientists for fast and reliable genomic analysis”, the lead author of the poster was Yirong Wang, senior knowledge scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim. Other contributors included Eugene Myshkin, Eugene Rakhmatulin and Sirimon O’Charoen of Thomson Reuters and William Loging of Boehringer Ingelheim.

In partnership, Boehringer Ingelheim and Thomson Reuters leveraged the tranSMART open-source, knowledge management platform to create biSMART, a workflow-based system that addresses scientific questions in running data analysis, directly reducing the learning curve for scientists as well as the analysis time from days with traditional methods to just minutes.

“Based on the solid open-source platform (tranSMART), the new platform gives regular researchers the powerful discovery tool which was only available to bioinformaticians only a few years ago, to reduce analysis time from weeks to hours,” said Wang.

“This collaboration between two industry leaders demonstrates the possibilities of the tranSMART open-source platform,” said tranSMART Foundation CEO Keith Elliston. “We congratulate Boehringer Ingelheim and Thomson Reuters on their award-winning poster. Knowing that the tranSMART platform was the basis for their solution and the ability these technologies are giving scientists to more quickly and easily analyze data for translational medicine research is extremely satisfying.”