Thomson Reuters to Host tranSMART Community Meeting During BIO-IT World Conference
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Thomson Reuters to Host tranSMART Community Meeting During BIO-IT World
Conference
Meeting will bring together key stakeholders to discuss promise of translational
research and help speed discoveries from laboratory to clinic
PHILADELPHIA, PA - April 4, 2013 - The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters,
the world's leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and
professionals, today announced it will host-in collaboration with the Pistoia
Alliance and the tranSMART Foundation-a tranSMART Community meeting April
10, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Thomson Reuters office at 22 Thomson Place,
Boston.
This meeting will bring together key stakeholders from universities, non-profit
research organizations, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and vendors
to discuss the future of translational research and to help speed promising
discoveries from the laboratory to the clinic. It will also provide attendees
with an overview of the tranSMART open-source, community-driven platform.
Presentations include an overview of the tranSMART Foundation (community home);
a roadmap outlining tranSMART as the preferred data sharing and analytics
platform for translational biomedical research; major initiatives and active
projects including eTRIKS and TraIT; and the development of a partner network
offering content and data curation, platform provisioning and implementation
services.
This meeting is open to all interested parties but space is limited.
Reservations for a space can be made online. Attendees will be welcomed on a
first come, first served basis.
"The tranSMART community meeting in Boston is a great opportunity for interested
parties to come together to learn the latest about our activity to date, " said
Dr. Brian Athey, co-chief executive officer of the tranSMART Foundation and
chair of the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the
University of Michigan Medical. "We continue to make steady progress in our
efforts and are encouraged by the opportunity to highlight recent developments
and future plans for tranSMART and to continue to grow our open source
community. Many thanks to Thomson Reuters for supporting our international
efforts."
Dr. Michael Braxenthaler, co-chief executive officer of the tranSMART Foundation
and Chairman of the Pistoia Alliance, added, "We are very happy to have Thomson
Reuters involved in tranSMART and are looking forward to hosting the meeting
with them and generating more interest in the community."
"Our staff has been involved in providing implementation, development and deep
curation expertise for relevant biological data for tranSMART since the
inception of its platform," said Joe Donahue, senior vice president at Thomson
Reuters. "We are pleased to continue to support tranSMART, together with the
tranSMART Foundation and the Pistoia Alliance, and the organizations that wish
to implement it."
For more information about the tranSMART professional solutions available from
Thomson Reuters, please visit:
http://thomsonreuters.com/content/science/pdf/ls/LS-201210-SCI-TRS-TranSMART-
Brochure.pdf.
tranSMART Foundation
The tranSMART FOUNDATION is a global non-profit organization devoted to
realizing the promise of translational biomedical research through development
of the tranSMART knowledge management platform. The mission of the tranSMART
Foundation is to enable effective sharing, integration, standardization and
analysis of heterogeneous data from collaborative translational research by
mobilizing the tranSMART open-source and open-data community. The Pistoia
Alliance and the University of Michigan are Co-founding members of the tranSMART
Foundation.
For more information, go to www.transmartfoundation.org/.
Pistoia Alliance
Since 2009, the Pistoia Alliance (www.pistoiaalliance.org) has worked to lower
barriers to innovation by improving the interoperability of R&D business
processes. Alliance members include over 70 life science companies, vendors, and
content providers.
Thomson Reuters
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