The Hyve has active collaborations with several academic groups in The Netherlands. On 24 and 25 March, we organized a joint workshop with the Molgenis team from UMC Groningen (led by Morris Swertz). We collaborate with Molgenis, amongst others, in[…]

With the recent 'TranSMART 2.0 Architecture Workshop', organized at our The Hyve offices in Utrecht, the basis has been laid for the next phase of tranSMART. The goals for the workshop were formulated as:

When tranSMART was conceived originally by Recombinant at Johnson & Johnson, it was supposed to extend the clinical warehouse I2B2 with biomarker data, such as microarray gene expression data, and allow the both datatypes to be integrated. TranSMART[…]

Notwithstanding the holidays, it has been a great week in publicity for The Hyve. Both revolving around the 'Start-up Kitchen' a great interview with our CEO Kees van Bochove appeared in print in the Dutch Financial Times 'Het Financieele Dagblad'[…]

With the growing popularity of the tranSMART data mart and analysis platform the quality standards for all its modules are continuously rising. The ETL framework (Extract, Transform, Load; the part that reshapes and uploads the data) has been[…]

One of the keys to successful translational medical research is getting the right data to the right people in the right format. Achieving this requires supporting the many relevant data types, ensuring curated data is stored in an easily accessible[…]

The Hyve works in the EMIF project in collaboration with Janssen on a.o. creating the EMIF platform and curating cohort data for Alzheimer Disease and Metabolics. We will regularly post the newsletters of this project. 

Janneke “At this year's NBIC Conference in Lunteren, I was very fortunate to attend a talk by Ilya Smulevich from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). This was a very inspiring session, where he introduced us to the very rich and heterogenous datasource[…]

Hackathons are a good method to quickly get a lot of work done on a focussed task, involving multiple parties. This is especially true if the task focusses on the integration of different systems, which requires communication and synchronization[…]

Montpellier is a gorgeous city. And luckily for us, also the place where the hackathon with Sanofi was to be held to finalize an array of improvements we added to tranSMART. The Hyve sent a team of developers and testers to France to wrap up this[…]