Featured articles from our partners at Wellcome Trust Moving from design to build — an update on the Global Mental Health Databank study By Miranda Marcus Read article…

By Meg Doerr and Lara Mangravite Since our founding, Sage Bionetworks has worked to expand the community of solvers using biomedical data to advance human health. In our 2020–2022 strategic plan, we committed to broadening the circle further by increasing representation across the research life cycle.

By Lara Mangravite President, Sage Bionetworks (article originally published on Nov. 18, 2020) At Sage, we build responsible practices for data sharing in health research. By combining policy and technology, we work to ensure data can be safely used across institutes. We do this because broad data resources and interdisciplinary…

By Ben Logsdon Silos in research are slowing us down. This isn’t a revelation, but it is a rallying call for many of us who hope to overcome barriers to advancing research, especially for a disease like Alzheimer’s. In the study of Alzheimer’s, there has been a spectacular failure in…

By Robert Grossman In the discussion about open science, we refer to the need for having data commons. What are data commons and why might a community develop one? I offer a brief introduction and describe how data commons can support open science. Data commons are used by projects and…

By Helena Ledmyr The amazing people at Sage Bionetworks have kindly asked me to contribute to their series of posts about open science. The first thing that occurred to me was that it’s nice to be recognized as part of the open-science movement. …

By Nancy Kass Ethics is an essential consideration for any research initiative that collects, uses, or reuses human data or samples. In data activities of these types, ethics concerns — whether raised by institutional review boards (IRBs) tasked with reviewing projects, or in the published literature — seem to focus…

By Geraldine Van der Auwera As Lara Mangravite and John Wilbanks noted in their opening salvo, “open science” is such a multifaceted concept that it defies consensus definition — and so I have found it particularly interesting to hear and read the individual definitions that have come out of the…

By Michael Kellen At Sage, we’re always reflecting on the work we’ve done, and how it might need to evolve. Conversations with partners and colleagues at events such as CAOS are a key part of this process. …