Recombinant Data recently announced the launch of tranSMART Professional Open Source Services during the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo '12 in Boston.
The company specializes in healthcare data warehousing and clinical intelligence solutions and has designed tranSMART as an open source knowledge management platform, allowing both medical and life science researchers to further translational science and clinical research through information sharing and collaboration.
"Recombinant Data's tranSMART Professional Open Source Services combine the benefits of open source software applications with the quality, reliability and consistency of commercial services,” said David Hardison, PhD, managing director, Health Sciences at Recombinant Data. “Global biopharma companies and academic medical centers are maximizing the value of tranSMART by engaging Recombinant Data for professional implementation, network management, support and maintenance."
Recombinant Data collaborated with a major pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare products company to create tranSMART. Some of the Recombinant Professional Open Source Services for tranSMART include Technical Support with Guaranteed Response Times; Performance Tuning and System Audit; Installation and Testing of Application Updates and Patches; End User Training and Educational Materials; Dedicated Client Services Coordinator; Application Software Documentation, Warranty and Indemnification; Utilization Reporting and Software Roadmap Priority.
"The tranSMART biomedical knowledge management platform has a model that scales across groups to facilitate productive public/private partnerships,” said Brian Athey of the University of Michigan. “We are working with the tranSMART Project to take it to the next level to achieve the full potential of the vision." Athey is a PhD, Professor and Chair in the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Michigan Institute for Clinical Health Research at University of Michigan Medical School.
Some of the main features of tranSMART include a Dataset Explorer that provides flexible, powerful search and analysis capabilities that integrate and extend the open source i2b2 application, Lucene text indexing, bioconductor, Galaxy and GenePattern analytical tools; a Data Mart and Repository for managing phenotype and genotype information that combines a data mart of clinical trial results, observational medical data, and 'omics content with access to federated sources of open and commercial databases and role-based, enterprise-scale security model that allows an organization to control data access and use in accordance with internal policies governing the use of research data and controlled sharing with collaborators.
Edited by
Braden Becker
