SIMON: open-source knowledge discovery platform

Data analysis and knowledge discovery has become more and more important in biology and medicine with the increasing complexity of the biological datasets, but necessarily sophisticated programming skills and in-depth understanding of algorithms needed pose barriers to most biologists and clinicians to perform such research. We have developed a modular open-source software SIMON to facilitate the application of 180+ state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to high-dimensional biomedical data. With an easy to use graphical user interface, standardized pipelines, automated approach for machine learning and other statistical analysis methods, SIMON helps to identify optimal algorithms and provides a resource that empowers non-technical and technical researchers to identify crucial patterns in biomedical data.