Synapse
leveraging the web to make science more collaborative
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sage bionetworks
35 FTEs - hiring 5 additional
1/2 research - 1/3 platform - 1/6 leadership & support
sage bionetworks
a non-profit organization which pilots a
variety of components that are necessary
to build a scientific research commons
focused on a world where biomedical research
will fundamentally change to be
more open and collaborative
supports communities of researchers
working collaboratively across disciplines
sage bionetworks
focused on a world where biomedical research
will fundamentally change to be
more open and collaborative
open
sage bionetworks
focused on a world where biomedical research
will fundamentally change to be
more open and collaborative
open
sage bionetworks
access
focused on a world where biomedical research
will fundamentally change to be
more open and collaborative
sage bionetworks
accessibility
focused on a world where biomedical research
will fundamentally change to be
more open and collaborative
open
sage bionetworks
access
focused on a world where biomedical research
will fundamentally change to be
more open and collaborative
open
sage bionetworks
focused on a world where biomedical research
will fundamentally change to be
more open and collaborative
open
sage bionetworks
data
focused on a world where biomedical research
will fundamentally change to be
more open and collaborative
open
sage bionetworks
science
focused on a world where biomedical research
will fundamentally change to be
more open and collaborative
sage bionetworks
science
focused on a world where biomedical research
will fundamentally change to be
more open and collaborative
sage bionetworks
a non-profit organization which pilots a
variety of components that are necessary
to build a scientific research commons
focused on a world where biomedical research
will fundamentally change to be
more open and collaborative
supports communities of researchers
working collaboratively across disciplines
sage bionetworks
tool for
collaborative
science
re-imagined
informed
consent
patients
as
partners
a non-profit organization which pilots a
variety of components that are necessary
to build a scientific research commons
sage bionetworks
enables sharing of all resources (data, code, results)
and their relationships to one another
multi-channel communication
instead of uni-directional broadcasting
aides in reproducibility by
enabling communication throughout the research process
not only at time of publication
a non-profit organization which pilots a
variety of components that are necessary
to build a scientific research commons
sage bionetworks
distributed & versioned file system
rich annotations (metadata)
customizable schemas for structured data
agnostic to storage solution (cloud, local server, etc.)
wiki authoring
access controls (share whatever with whomever)
a non-profit organization which pilots a
variety of components that are necessary
to build a scientific research commons
sage bionetworks
a non-profit organization which pilots a
variety of components that are necessary
to build a scientific research commons
open RESTful APIs
www.synapse.org
programmatic clients
sage bionetworks
a non-profit organization which pilots a
variety of components that are necessary
to build a scientific research commons
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Synapse Governance
a complete process
sage bionetworks
a non-profit organization which pilots a
variety of components that are necessary
to build a scientific research commons
focused on a world where biomedical research
will fundamentally change to be
more open and collaborative
supports communities of researchers
working collaboratively across disciplines
sage bionetworks
supports communities of researchers
working collaboratively across disciplines
CRC Subtyping Consortium
DREAM Challenges
Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium
TCGA Pan-Cancer Consortium
CommonMind Consortium
PsychENCODE
Accelerating Medicines Partnership
Resilience Project
Influenza Vaccinations
Dengue Fever
Psychosis Spectrum Disorder
Oncology Molecular Classifiers
Next Gen Scientific Publishing
Mozilla Science Labs
sage bionetworks
DREAM Challenges
DREAM Challenges
Columbia Professor Dimitris Anastassiou
MPEG-2 compression of digital audio and video signals
Modules of co-expressed genes shared across cancers
Belief that these ‘attractors’ represent underlying biological
mechanisms (bioinformatic ‘hallmarks of cancer’1)
1D. Hanahan, R. A. Weinberg. Hallmarks of cancer: The next generation. Cell 144, 646–674 (2011)
DREAM Challenges
17 April 2013
DREAM Challenges
CRC Subtyping Consortium
DREAM Challenges
Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium
TCGA Pan-Cancer Consortium
CommonMind Consortium
PsychENCODE
Accelerating Medicines Partnership
Resilience Project
Influenza Vaccinations
Dengue Fever
Psychosis Spectrum Disorder
Oncology Molecular Classifiers
Next Gen Scientific Publishing
Mozilla Science Labs
sage bionetworks
Accelerating Medicines Partnership
public / private partnership between NIH,
10 biopharmaceutical companies
and several non-profit organizations
Accelerating Medicines Partnership
biopharma
AbbVie
Biogen Idec
Bristol-Myers Squibb
GlaxoSmithKline
Johnson & Johnson
Lilly
Merck
Pfizer
Sanofi
Takeda
non-profit
Alzheimer’s Association
Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation
American Diabetes Association
Arthritis Foundation
Foundation for the NIH
Geoffrey Beene Foundation
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Lupus Foundation of America
Lupus Research Institute/Alliance for Lupus Research
PhRMA
Rheumatology Research Foundation
USAgainstAlzheimer’s
Accelerating Medicines Partnership
($ Millions)
Total
Project
Total NIH
Total
Industry
Alzheimer’s
Disease
129.5 67.6 61.9
Type 2
Diabetes
58.4 30.4 28
Rheumatoid
Arthritis
41.6 20.9 20.7
TOTAL 229.5 118.9 110.6
Accelerating Medicines Partnership
cross-project data generation
shRNA
compounds
RNAi
human
mouse
drosophila
iPSC
RNA-seq
Whole exome
WGS
methylation
miRNA
proteomics
phenotypic measurements
modificationssystems data generation
X X
Accelerating Medicines Partnership
Target
Discovery
Target
Discovery
Target
Discovery
Target
Discovery
Target
Validation
Target
Validation
Target
Validation
Target
Validation
Shared
Information for
Target Identification
coordinate sharing of early-phase
target identification insights
Accelerating Medicines Partnership
Accelerating Medicines Partnership
CRC Subtyping Consortium
DREAM Challenges
Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium
TCGA Pan-Cancer Consortium
CommonMind Consortium
PsychENCODE
Accelerating Medicines Partnership
Resilience Project
Influenza Vaccinations
Dengue Fever
Psychosis Spectrum Disorder
Oncology Molecular Classifiers
Next Gen Scientific Publishing
Mozilla Science Labs
sage bionetworks
TCGA Pan-Cancer Consortium
18NPG papers
68core projects
248researchers
28institutions
1070datasets
1723results
TCGA Pan-Cancer Consortium
TCGA Pan-Cancer Consortium
Cyriac Kandoth
TCGA Pan-Cancer Consortium
doi:10.7303/syn1710680.4
CRC Subtyping Consortium
DREAM Challenges
Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium
TCGA Pan-Cancer Consortium
CommonMind Consortium
PsychENCODE
Accelerating Medicines Partnership
Resilience Project
Influenza Vaccinations
Dengue Fever
Psychosis Spectrum Disorder
Oncology Molecular Classifiers
Next Gen Scientific Publishing
Mozilla Science Labs
sage bionetworks
CRC Subtyping Consortium
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collaborative analyses
cloud-based file storage
CRC Subtyping Consortium
code associated
with results
CRC Subtyping Consortium
CRC Subtyping Consortium
Synapse
leveraging the web to make science more collaborative
brian m. bot
m1-a111
brian.bot@sagebase.org
@BrianMBot
Synapse engineering team
Michael Kellen, Director
Christopher Bare
Marcel Blonk
John Hill
Jay Hodgson
Bruce Hoff
Xavier Schildwachter

leveraging the web to make science more collaborative