Sage Repository Test Program
Sage Bionetworks has initiated a pilot program offering open access to selected datasets and related network models to researchers interested in testing the repository. The resources are freely available through the Sage Repository Download Page. Users only need provide their name, organizational affiliation and a valid email address. Acknowledgement of the Sage Repository is requested in all resulting publications and presentations. The initially limited catalog will be expanded during 2010.
Available Datasets:
- 25JAN2010 - Metabolic and Cardiovascular Disease : BxH ApoE -/- mouse cross.
-> go to Repository Download Page
The repository packages include a readme file with descriptions and references and a (large!) compressed file with datasets and analyses. Researchers should send feedback on the pilot program as well as questions, comments and suggestions to repdata@sagebase.org.
The pilot repository project is the first step in the development of the Sage Commons. The Commons will be the environment for shared research on biological network models and their application to problems of human disease and biology. It will contain network models derived from Global Coherent Data Sets, the data sets themselves, and the analytical methods and code used to generate the network models. Global Coherent Data Sets are those where DNA variation, genome-wide molecular phenotypes such as gene-expression, and clinical phenotypes have been measured in a sizable population of genetically diverse individuals. Sage Commons models, data, and code will be well annotated and of robust quality so that they may be legitimately combined for meta-analyses within the Sage Commons and in combination with data and models of other researchers.
Invitation to Participate
Researchers interested in contributing datasets, analyses and models are invited to contact us at repdata@sagebase.org for further discussion.