A year ago, tranSMART was the internal research datawarehouse for translational research at Johnson & Johnson, and for a number of projects in which J&J companies participated, such as IMI U-BIOPRED. It had already quite some traction at that[…]

Introduction At the tranSMART Developer Workshop on London last February, there was a consensus that the future of tranSMART should comprehend a core that would implement the essential functionality of the application. The rest would be built upon[…]

Earlier, I blogged about how to set up a tranSMARTdevelopment environment - this was the GPL 1.0 release which has Oracle as a prerequisite. Nowadays, we have a version that runs on Postgres - it still has some problems, but it is promoted as the[…]

In an earlier post, I shared my experiences with installing tranSMART on Amazon, but there are now AMI's availabe for the tranSMART 1.0 GA version, which makes that post obsolete. However, I like to be able to code on the road when I have to travel,[…]

This post will assist you with installing (parts of) the Phenotype Database project [1] . We will be using a CentOS installation [2] . CentOS uses the source code from the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux project [3] . Currently the project's[…]

Using the Grails Object Relational Model tends to work quite well when using conventional, structured data. At that point the type of database you are using, relational or otherwise, doesn't really matter. GORM's dynamic finders [1] are a pleasure[…]

In one of our projects we had reason to combine a Grails-based web application with non-web applications. We were using SpringSource's MongoDB GORM plugin [1] for our Grails-based application. We also had applications that operated on the same[…]

Great news for translational research: Johnson & Johnson recently open sourced their translational medicine datawarehouse, called tranSMART. A paper on tranSMART was published in 2010, and just a few days ago a first version of the source code was[…]

So what does open source mean, really? I would like to skip the legal part and review the community side in this post. What defines and makes a succesful open source project? Why have projects such as Linux, Firefox, Apache, MySQL, Postgres, Plone[…]

When I explain to people what The Hyve does, I try to observe their reactions. This is fun, but it also tells me a lot about how they feel about our business model, which is important feedback to me. Often they smile and nod, until I get to the[…]