[Infowarrior] - Sagebase.Org for pharma researchers

[Richard Forno]

http://sagebase.org/

Vision: Create an open access, integrative bionetwork evolved by  
contributor scientists working to eliminate human disease.


Sage is a new, not-for-profit medical research organization  
established in 2009 to revolutionize how researchers approach the  
complexity of human biological information and the treatment of  
disease. Sage’s objectives are:


• to build and support an open access platform and databases for  
building innovative new dynamic disease models
• to interconnect scientists as contributors to evolving, integrated  
networks of biological data

Background

Sage resulted from the realization that the needs and potentials of  
clinical and molecular data to inform drug development are greater  
than the resources or capacity of any one company or institute. Sage  
is a legacy of successful proof of principle work accomplished at  
Rosetta Inpharmatics, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. in Seattle.  
Core human and intellectual property resources from this effort are  
seeding Sage’s growth. The primary output from Sage will be an open  
access platform available in the public domain. An incubation period  
of three to five years is anticipated in which new project data are  
generated, critical tools for building and mining disease models are  
developed and governing rules for sharing, accessing, and contributing  
to the platform are established.

Sage is a distributed research organization with nodes embedded within  
core academic partner facilities. Collaborating scientists from both  
the nonprofit and commercial sectors will contribute to projects  
building and using innovative new databases and tools. More detailed  
information will be available soon.