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Sage Bionetworks News
- Summer Reading List (16 June 2010)
- Sage Commons Congress outcomes (25 April 2010)
- Sage Bionetworks has received a $5 million grant from the Washington Life Science Discovery Fund (7 April 2010)
- Sage Bionetworks begins Integrative Genomics Research Program with Merck (30 Mar 2010)
- Sage Awarded New NCI Center for Cancer Systems Biology (23 Feb 2010)
- Sage Commons Repository Open for Business (25 Jan 2010)
- Sage Bionetworks Announces Oncology Partnership with Pfizer (11 Jan 2010)
Sage Bionetworks Media Coverage
- Something in Common by Stephen Friend (15 July 2010)
- Too much data, too few drugs by David Ewing Duncan, Fortune.com (29 April 2010)
- My Data, Your Data, Our Data by Amy Marcus, Wall Street Journal (13 April 2010)
- "Sage Bionetworks, it can now be said unequivocally, is on fire." by Luke Timmerman, Xconomy (6 April 2010)
- New Seattle Nonprofit Plans Big Role in Biology, NPR Interview with Stephen Friend by Keith Seinfeld (23 February 2010)
- Sage Bionetworks Snaps Up $6.7M Grant to Train Young Network Biologists by Luke Timmerman, Xconomy (23 February 2010)
- 2009 Reflection by Bethan Hughes, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (January 2010)
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Sage Bionetworks hosts a News and Discussion Forum to provide updates on its activities and as an on-line research community roundtable. The facility has multiple categories, moderated comments and full search, index and archive capacity for discussing genomic analysis and open access strategies. Sage welcomes inquires from anyone interested in contributing: info@sagebase.org.
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Latest News stories
27 July 2010 - Stephen Friend has published an editorial on the Sage Commons Congress and its connection to our mission to create an accessible contributor-driven platform for building and sharing advanced disease models. It provides a great summary of the progress and the challenges ahead. Through a special arrangement with Science Translational Medicine you can access the full text or a reprint.
16 June 2010 - Recommended Reading: We have posted an annotated summary of recent interesting news articles on genomics, data sharing, drug development and public engagement on the updated News Forum Page. The common theme of course is the value of public access and progressive collaboration. Sage Bionetworks is mentioned and quoted in many of the pieces. There are a number of excellent reporters and writers covering this topic who offer sharp insights into the problems, challenges and opportunities in sharing research data, tools and results. Please note that we welcome comments and suggestions on other articles that should be highlighted.
23-24 April 2010 - Sage Bionetworks hosted a Congress in San Francisco April 23-24, 2010 to establish the foundation for a new public domain resource, the Sage Commons. The participants included international experts and critical stakeholders. The opportunities and challenges incumbent in building an effective Commons were addressed by a series of stakeholder project teams. The projects included pilot and demonstration systems, standards, tools, internationalization, citation and public engagement, and will help frame Congress discussions and provide practical guidance on solutions going forward. For more information or to download copies of keynote and plenary presentations please visit the Congress website: www.sagecongress.org.
7 April 2010 - The Washington Life Science Discovery Fund has announced a $5m grant to Sage Bionetworks to establish a novel program to apply advanced computational modeling to the discovery and development of disease therapies. The Program will build and deploy a Network Data Management System, an important facet of the Sage Commons, which will be a repository of genetic data, tools and computational models of disease for medical researchers and biotechnology companies. The grant will also help establish the Washington Partners Program (WPP) an outreach initiative with specialized interface teams, working with academic and commercial groups, to increase the speed and success of their internal projects. - Press Release -
Sage Congress
Videos of Sage Commons Congress Presentations are now available on the Sage Congress web site. You can view streaming video from fora.tv or download the video files directly to your computer and view them with a suitably equipped web browser or a flash viewer. PDF copies of most presentations are also available for downloading.
Congress participants made considerable progress addressing the issues facing the Commons including standards, infrastructure, citation, internationalization, and public engagement. Project team updates will be made available on the Congress workstream pages. For more information or to learn how you can get involved please contact info@sagebase.org.