NIBR Open Source

The Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) is pioneering new informatics tools for drug discovery. We believe in the power of open-sourced, global collaboration for the greater good. Join us to help patients worldwide.

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Projects

PISCES

a package for rapid quantitation and quality control of large scale mRNA-seq datasets

JPkl

Fast, compressed JPEG storage for NumPy applications.

Peax

Interactive concept learning and visual exploration of epigenomic patterns.

Jenkins-LSCI

Life Science Continuous Integration -- Workflows and data pipelines for life science research.

Habitat

Habitat - Where files live. A simple and yet powerful self-contained object storage management system.

YADA

A universal remote control for data.

OntoBrowser

A web-based application for managing ontologies and assigning synonyms to ontology terms.

Railroadtracks

A toolkit for DNA and RNA-Seq processing steps.

Yet Another Pipeline

YAP allows researchers to quickly build high throughput big data pipelines without extensive knowledge of parallel programming.

GridVar

GridVar is a jQuery plugin that visualizes multi-dimensional datasets as layers organized in a row-column format.

Interested in NIBR Engineering?

At NIBR, you'll be at the forefront of technology — helping to shape it, develop it, and make it impactful. Partnering with scientists, our engineers create cutting-edge, state-of-the-art solutions that accelerate drug discovery and ultimately improve patients’ lives.

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