AMP-AD Knowledge Portal
Sage Bionetworks announces the launch of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership – Alzheimer’s Disease (AMP-AD) Knowledge Portal, a public repository for the 5-year, $130M NIH AMP-AD project. AMP-AD will share data and results developed within this precompetitive AD target discovery and preclinical validation framework.
DREAM ALS Stratification Prize4Life Challenge
We are pleased to announce that the DREAM ALS Stratification Prize4Life Challenge, the first of the DREAM10 Challenges is now open for participation. This Challenge focuses on predicting the progression and survival of ALS patients. The Challenge will leverage the PRO-ACT database of more than 8,000 cases as the Challenge training set, and feature several unpublished datasets that will be used for model validation. To learn more and join this Challenge, click here.
Additional information can be found here.
Sage Bionetworks Launches Two Clinical Studies With Apple’s ResearchKit
March 9 was a big day for Sage Bionetworks and, we hope, an important day for the medical research community. As part of the Apple launch of its ResearchKit platform, Sage Bionetworks announced the launch of two iPhone app-based research studies: Parkinson mPower and Share the Journey.
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News
Combining tumor genome simulation with crowdsourcing to benchmark somatic single-nucleotide-variant detection
A wonderful article in Nature Methods about the ICGC-TCGA DREAM Somatic Mutation Calling Challenge which includes a statement that reflects the power of DREAM Challenges: “… an ensemble of pipelines outperforms the best individual pipeline in all...
DREAM challenge uses crowd sourcing to test the state of the art in systems biomedicine
A very informative press release was issued with today’s Nature Biotechnology publication about the DREAM8 Toxicogenetics Challenge. Learn more.
App-enabled trial participation: Tectonic shift or tepid rumble?
The most recent issue of Science Translational Medicine includes an editorial by Stephen Friend, President of Sage Bionetworks, that examines the role of apps in medical research. Read Full...
ISMB Presentation: How to Use DREAM Challenges and the Synapse Platform
AKES 01: Applied Knowledge in Building Networks for Translation: How to Use DREAM Challenge and Synapse Platform as a Research Strategy will be a session at the 23rd Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 14th European...
Up for a Challenge Launches!
Sage Bionetworks, in partnership with the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), launched a new prize competition this week, “Up For A Challenge (U4C) – Stimulating Innovation in Breast Cancer Genetic...
2015 Paris Assembly
Paris Assembly 2015 The 2015 Paris Assembly based on the theme “Connecting Open Research, Open Education and Open Social Impact” was held on April 16-18, at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Video recordings of the Assembly are available online – Visit...
‘Crowdsourcing to Experts: The DREAM Challenges’ article in Biomedical Computation Review
Biomedical Computation Review, a journal focusing on Big Data to Knowledge Centers of Excellence, highlights DREAM including NCI-DREAM and ALS Challenges. Read the full article: Crowdsourcing to Experts: The DREAM...
Prostate Cancer DREAM Challenge First Leaderboard Round Top Performers
The Prostate Cancer DREAM Challenge first leaderboard round is complete, and at the end of each of the leaderboard rounds we will be highlighting top performing teams. Along with the team profile, we asked a few DREAM related questions. Learn more about the top...
Combining tumor genome simulation with crowdsourcing to benchmark somatic single-nucleotide-variant detection
An interesting article in Nature about the ICGC-TCGA DREAM Somatic Mutation Calling...