Category Archives: pre-clinical

Creating SAS Transport files from Node.JS

By Justin Morley18th March 2015Application Development, Node, pre-clinical, SAS, SEND, xport

Coming at SEND from a preclinical background has been a strange experience. One of the most unusual things about it, from my perspective, is the use of SAS transport files to convey data. Why wrap deliveries up in an arcane binary format where you have to jump through hoops to consume the data? I guess

The SEND Data Format

By Justin Morley17th March 2015Application Development, pre-clinical, SEND

The Standard Exchange for Non-clinical Data or SEND format is currently gaining traction within the pharmaceutical industry, largely thanks to its adoption by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a format for submitting data. In many respects this is a very good thing. There is a distinct lack of standardisation in organisations dealing