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About OBiBa

OBiBa is a suite of stand-alone applications that support the data management activities of epidemiological studies. These modular applications can be integrated into a comprehensive information management and analysis system for individual studies.

As part of the Maelstrom Research program, OBiBa includes advanced components for data harmonization and federation, for study networks that harmonize and securely share data among their members.

OBiBa applications are highly customizable and easy to use, built on current technologies, and comply with the highest standards of privacy and data security.

History

OBiBa was launched in 2007 as a core project of the Public Population Project in Genomics and Society (P3G). The project grew rapidly and obtained substantial financial support from its main partners to build a new generation of open source software for data collection and management.

In 2012, OBiBa and the DataSHaPER project, also from P3G, joined efforts to create the Maelstrom Research program, whose mission is to develop tools and methods for epidemiological data harmonization. Maelstrom Research is located at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, in Montreal, Quebec.

Citation

If you use OBiBa software, please cite it in your code, websites, publications or reports, and let us know at info@obiba.org:

The work presented herein was made possible using the OBiBa suite (www.obiba.org), a software suite developed by Maelstrom Research (www.maelstrom-research.org).

See also the publications about OBiBa software.

License

OBiBa source code is freely available under the GNU General Public License v3.

Contribute

  • Source code: OBiBa is open source and contributions are welcome. Visit OBiBa on GitHub, fork, modify and open pull requests; we will be happy to review them. Before starting major work, contact us to share your ideas so we can guide you.
  • Sponsoring: sponsor OBiBa on GitHub to help us maintain our test and demo servers.

Some OBiBa users

Many other users have downloaded our software without letting us know. If you like OBiBa, please tell us about yourself at info@obiba.org: it matters for our funding, and helps us provide good, continuous support. See also the user stories.