Open Source in Pharma
Open Source in Pharma is a registered non-profit aiming to support the use of open source languages in Pharma.
Our mission:
- Promote the use of open source, and collaboration between companies
- Put on fantastic, vendor free, community events like R/Pharma
- Encourage seminars, dicussion and facilitate collaboration between companies
Our impact
R/Pharma
R/Pharma conference is a relatively small, scientifically & industry oriented, collegial event focused on the use of R in the development of pharmaceuticals.
The first conference took place in 2018, as an in-person event hosted by Harvard. During Covid-19, the conference moved to be online, and grew in participation to more than 1,500 data scientists from the pharma world with a passion for using R.
The conference is free to attend, and all hosting costs are met by contributions by Pharma companies.
Task forces
Two task forces have been started by Open Source in Pharma to support the R/Pharma conference community.
Certificates
OS in Pharma supports the release of Credly certifications to individuals that attend a conference workshop.
Coursera
We have supported Roche / Genentech release the first online course specifically targeted at bridging the world of data science, with the world of data science for regulatory reporting.
This has led to the Genentech course on Coursera called ‘Making data science work for clinical reporting’.
Github org
Open source in Pharma provides governance over three Github Organisations.
- github.com/openpharma - A generic home for projects that are looking for a Github organisation that is not affaliated to a specific company, and not tied to a specific organisation like PhUSE, ROpenSci or the R Consortium.
- github.com/rinpharma - For material relating to the R/Pharma conference, including the conference website and presentation/workshop archive.
- github.com/opensourceinpharma - For material relating to the OS in Pharma non-profit, including this website.