biomedical research in an increasingly digital world
brian m. bot | principal scientist |
2016 april 18
sage bionetworks
pnw life science executive forum
biomedical research in an increasingly digital world
opportunities when problems are bigger than
a single organization
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
our approach
CommonMind Consortium
large public / private partnership
phase I: prefrontal cortex
~300 SCZ, 300 control, 60 BD
processing pipelines developed in collaboration
between sage and mssm
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
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48,104 downloads from app store - first six months
16,585 participants consented
14,684 participants enrolled
9,520 agreed to ‘share broadly’
1,087 self reported a professional diagnosis of Parkinson
mPower
democratization of research
de-coupling of data collection and analysis
cloud infrastructure
gov’t agencies and public pushing for > sharing
increasingly decentralized research ecosystem