The tranSMART Platform Wins Three Awards at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
Open-Source Knowledge Management Platform Wins Best-of-Show Award and Used on Winning Projects of the Best Practices and Best Poster Awards
(firmenpresse) - WAKEFIELD, MA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/28/15 -- , a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, today announced that its platform won three awards at the April 21-23, 2015 in Boston, Mass., including Best-of-Show, Best Practices and Best Poster Awards.
The tranSMART Platform v1.2 won the Best-of-Show Award in the Informatics & Data Tools category honoring exceptional innovation in technologies used by life science professionals.
The won a Best Practices Award Judges' Prize for its use of the tranSMART platform in Parkinson's disease research working with . The Best Practices Awards highlight outstanding examples of technology innovation in the life sciences, from basic R&D to translational medicine. The tranSMART-based U-BIOPRED Study was a 2014 Best Practices Award winner.
In addition to the Best-of-Show and Best Practices awards, , a Silver member of the tranSMART Foundation, won the Best Poster Award at the conference for its poster titled "Multi-omics data analysis in tranSMART using the Cell Line Use Case dataset" in the Dutch CTMM Translational Research IT (TraIT) project.
"The success of the tranSMART platform is a direct reflection of the hard work, dedication and true collaboration of our scientific and IT community," said , CEO of The tranSMART Foundation. "We are extremely proud to win the Best of Show award for the platform, but even more honored that two projects using the tranSMART platform won awards further validating the power the technology has to offer translational research."
is a non-profit organization that provides an open-source, cloud-based, data-sharing and analysis platform that enables scientists at universities, disease foundations, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies around the world to share pre-competitive data in a way that saves money and time in translating research findings into new therapies and diagnostic tools. Founded to steward the tranSMART platform, the Foundation is headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts with Centers of Excellence in Ann Arbor, Mich.; London, England; Boston, Mass.; and Amsterdam, Netherlands. The tranSMART Foundation can also be found on the web at .
Karen Higgins
A&E Communications, Inc.
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