Open source clinical science for emerging infections

Open Source Science

Emerging business models for open source hardware

Rightinsight: open source architecture for data science

We give the details of our reference architecture called RightInsight for enabling rapid data science. RightInsight is based purely on open source technologies. The data is stored in a standard distributed file system such as HDFS. The stored data is processed in Apache Spark, which provides an enhanced Map/Reduce programming environment. Its rich and powerful machine learning base makes it eas...

Emerging Framework for The Evaluation of Open Source Security Tools

The drive from the South African Government towards the adoption of open source software across all platforms, incurred a number of research and development questions. The open source domain provides especially SMME’s with options to implement high quality software that are financially viable. Although software costs is a major factor within providing proper working environments, specific secur...

BEAT: An Open-Source Web-Based Open-Science Platform

With the increased interest in computational sciences, machine learning (ML), pattern recognition (PR) and big data, governmental agencies, academia and manufacturers are overwhelmed by the constant influx of new algorithms and techniques promising improved performance, generalization and robustness. Sadly, result reproducibility is often an overlooked feature accompanying original research pub...