Understanding human biology requires a new community-based vision of open access innovation that respects and links all stakeholders and supports a new culture of cooperative, data-intensive science.

We pledge to take up this challenge and have drafted the Sage Bionetworks Commons Principles to guide the development of an open source community where computational biologists can develop and test competing models built from common resources.  These principles will guide the operations and evolution of the Commons, through its policies, procedures and practices.  The Principles will be revised and refined as experience accumulates with initial governance of the Commons guided by two Sage Bionetworks Directors and two external experts.

 

1. The purpose of the Commons is to expedite the pathway to knowledge, treatment, and prevention of disease.

2. We will promote collaborative discovery through the creation and support of a broadly accessible digital Commons consisting of curated data and methodological tools in which analytical results are shared in a transparent, open fashion.

 

3. The Commons will respect the rights and interests of all contributors including individuals from whom data are derived, researchers who collect and analyze data, and scientists and physicians who develop and implement healthcare advances. Those not respecting these rights will be excluded from the Commons.

 

4. Contributions to the Commons shall be appropriately acknowledged and attributed.

 

5. The Commons will promote data and tool sharing and distribution using standards that enable efficient reuse, compilation and comparison.

 

6. The Commons will hold no intellectual property rights in, and will not permit encumbrances on, data and other elements within the Commons.  This will not, however, preclude individuals from protecting new goods and services developed using data and other elements from the Commons.

 

Approved and endorsed by;

Craig Alexander Howard Hughes Medical Inst.   Brandon Allgood Numerate, Inc   Misha Angrist Duke University   Linda Avey Brainstorm Res. Foundation    Myles Axton Nature Genetics   Mukesh Bansal Columbia University   Douglas Bassett Ingenuity   Greg Biggers Genomera   Hans Bitter Roche   Robi Blumenstein CHDI Foundation   Jason  Bobe Personal Genome Project   Barry Bunin Collaborative Drug Discovery   Atul Butte Stanford University   Carlos  Caldas Cambridge Research Institute   Andrea Califano Columbia University   Richard Cave Public Library of Science   Robert Cook-Deegan Duke University   Maureen Cronin Foundation Medicine, Inc   Jim  Davies Oxford University   Anita De Waard Elsevier Labs   Nicole Deflaux Sage Bionetworks   Jonathan Derry Sage Bionetworks   David Duncan Fortune / U.C. Berkeley   Kelly Edwards University of Washington   Aris Floratos Columbia University   David Fore Lybba   Thomas Freeman Boehringer-Ingelheim   Stephen Friend Sage Bionetworks   Matt Furia Sage Bionetworks   Chris Gaiteri Sage Bionetworks   Diane Gary Sage Bionetworks   Mark Hahnel FigShare   Jeff Hammerbacher Cloudera   Greg Hannum U.C. San Diego   Leland Hartwell Biodesign Institute   Kristina Hathaway BioCurious   David  Haussler U.C. Santa Cruz   John Hill Sage Bionetworks   James Hodge Royal Society of Chemistry   Bruce Hoff Sage Bionetworks   Liz Horn Genetic Alliance   Iain Hrynaszkiewicz BioMed Central   Erich Huang Sage Bionetworks   Thomas Hudson Ontario Inst. Cancer Research   Trey  Ideker U.C. San Diego   Jonathan Izant Sage Bionetworks   Joseph Jackson Open Science Summit   Jos Jonkers Netherlands Cancer Institute   Peter Kapitein Inspire2Live   Jonathan Keats TGen   Michael Kellen Sage Bionetworks   Jeff Kiefer Tgen   Hiroaki Kitano Sony   Daphne Koller Stanford University   David Lahti Sage Bionetworks   Kelly LaMarco AAAS/Science Translational Med.   Paul Lasko McGill University   Liz Lyon UKOLN, Univ. of Bath   Daniel MacArthur Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute   Lara Mangravite Sage Bionetworks   Adam Margolin Sage Bionetworks   Brig Mecham Sage Bionetworks   Gerrit Meijer VU University Medical Center   Barend Mons Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre   Ross Mounce University of Bath   Bernard Munos Eli Lilly   Amanda Myers University of Miami   Vern Norviel Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati   Andy Oram O’Reilly Media   Joseph Owens Northwestern University   Gaurav Pandey U. C. Berkeley   Jane Perlmutter Gemini Group   Mette Peters Sage Bionetworks   Alex Pico Gladstone Institutes   Tom Pollard The British Library & DataCite   Alice Rathjen DNA Guide, Inc   Chris Roberts Merck & Co., Inc.   Scott Sacane Catalytic Data streams   Kamal Saini Jules Bordet Institute   Eric  Schadt Pacific Biosciences   Xavier Schildwachter Sage Bionetworks   Nigam Shah Stanford University   David Shaywitz Theravance   Sandra Silberman Quintiles   MacKenzie Smith M.I.T. Libraries   Todd Smith Geospiza   Peter Speyer Inst. Health Metrics & Evaluation   Dietrich Stephan The Gene Partnership   Mike Stocum Quintiles   Christine Suver Sage Bionetworks   Sharon Terry Genetic Alliance   Luke Timmerman Xconomy   Andrew Trister University of Washington   Fred Turek Northwestern University   Lex Van Der Ploeg Abraxis   Erik van Veenendaal Inspire2Live   Laura Van’t Veer U.C. San Francisco   Suzanne Vernon Research1st   Daniel Vorhaus Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson   Zhi Wang Sage Bionetworks   Regina Warmoth Sage Bionetworks   Hans Wigzell Karolinska Institutet   John  Wilbanks Creative Commons   Hans-Martin Will Microsoft   Antony Williams Royal Society of Chemistry – Chemspider   Michael Winio Stanford Univ.   Keith Yamamoto U.C. San Francisco   Jun Zhu Sage Bionetworks

Note: Endorsements are individual and not institutional; signatories do not necessarily represent the policies or opinions of their institutions.

 

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