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Commercial
Open Source Support
Lowering the risk
Innovative translational medicine software is
available from a number of open source projects including both major
NIH initiatives like i2b2, caBIG, the Broad Institute and institutions
contributing components of their custom projects to the medical
community. While many organizations seek to leverage the products from
these projects they are often hindered because of the risks in using a
platform with no vendor or financial model to support the technology.
At Recombinant we have worked to fill the void and provide a full
service solution suite around popular open source frameworks to help
deliver a packaged and professional solution. Our support services work
to wrap around the technology to ensure reliability and reduce project
risks like expertise gained from multiple implementations and a team to
call when problems arise are necessary in order to make any software
become successfully adopted.
Recombinant open source services
include:
• Tool selection through
prototypes and pilots
• Best practice implementation project planning
• Packaged adapters to communicate between tools
• Installation, configuration, and integration development
services
• Custom development of extensions or plugins
• Bug fix / incident support level agreements (SLAs)
• Training courses and materials - developer and end-users
• Hosting of collaboration tools - Jira, SVN, Confluence,
discussion forums
At Recombinant we partner with teams producing
open source tools to be able to deliver first line consulting and
support traditionally provided by a software product vendor. Since we
are committed to the model of community development in open source
projects much of the work we do on open source we contribute back to
the community and we focus development to avoid source code forks that
can damage community development. Our model for commercial open source
support, especially because it is involved in scientific endeavors,
embraces the ideas expressed in the Beekeeper model where our
responsibility is to support both customers and the non-customer
community and not favor one over the other. Community members do not
need to be Recombinant customers to make a meaningful contribution to
the overall success of products and customers are able to choose the
level of commercial support they would like from Recombinant. They
simply need to adopt the tools to the best of their ability and
contribute what they can back to the community.
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Example Projects
• Customization of i2b2 workbench and
lucine search engine at a major pharma organization within a biomarker
discovery data warehouse
• NIH Grant funded CICTR collaboration to launch i2b2 across 4
sites using the SHRINE software
• Installation of i2b2 at UMass Medical School to support
clinical research
Open Source support is available
for:
i2b2 Cells
- Clinical research chart
- Workbench (Eclipse and Web)
- Ontology Mapper (coming soon)
- SHRINE federation (coming soon)
Messaging
- Mirth
Base Application Frameworks
- Pentaho
- JFreeChart
- extJS
- Lucine search engine
caBIG®
- caBIG Support Services
- caGRID
- caTissue
- Open Clinica
Genomics/Analysis
- Gene Pattern - Broad Institute
- GE Workbench - Columbia
Useful Open Source Concepts
- Beekeeper model
- Cathedral and the Bazaar Book
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