Sage Commons Congress

Congress Videos now available

JIzant — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:56:54 +0000

The first set of videos from the Sage Commons Congress are now available on the Presentations page of 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 of the presentations are also available for downloading. For more information or to learn how you can get involved please contact info@sagebase.org.

Congress Summaries

JIzant — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:04:12 +0000

Several Commons Congress participants, as well as bloggers who engaged through the webcast, have written excellent Congress summaries, each from their own perspective:

Cameron Neylon covered the Congress extensively on Twitter and provides a great viewpoint at: http://cameronneylon.net/blog/engage-or-become-irrelevant/.

Deepak Singh and Oliver Hoffman have blogged their observations at: http://mndoci.com/ and http://www.fiamh.info/articles/25/notes-from-sagecon-day-1, respectively.

Finally, David Ewing Duncan has written a nice piece in Forbes.com at http://www.bit.ly/a5FSNP

What are your thoughts? Send us links to other Congress reviews or post your own comments on this blog. For more information contact info(at)sagebase.org

Re-live the Sage Commons Congress

JIzant — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:52:00 +0000

PDF copies of most Congress presentations are available for downloading at: http://sagecongress.org/WP/program/presentations . Video podcasts of the plenary and keynote presentations should be available on the Sage Congress website next week.

Don’t forget that participants can still register comments, suggestions and opinions on all the issues discussed at the Congress through DiscoveryCast at: http://www.discoverycast.com

Webcast Information

JIzant — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:33:49 +0000

“The revolution will be televised”

The Sage Commons Congress keynote and plenary talks will be webcast by Fora.tv. Coverage will begin at 8AM PDT Friday April 23rd. The webcast is sponsored by Sage Bionetworks, the Kauffman Foundation and Creative Commons and is free. Edited podcasts and interviews with Congress participants will be available through the Congress website, www.sagecongress.org, following the Congress. Copies of speaker presentations will be available shortly on the website as well.

To view the Sage Commons Congress webcast visit: http://fora.tv/live/cc/Sage_Commons_Congress

Commons Congress Sponsors

JIzant — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:30:00 +0000

With the first ever Sage Commons Congress only 10 days away, we
wanted to take a moment to thank those that have helped make this
possible by joining us as sponsors. We are fortunate to have the
backing of several generous organizations, corporations and funding
bodies, as well as the invaluable input over these last few months
from our project teams and working group members. We particularly wish
to acknowledge and thank the outstanding Congress sponsors below who
not only share our vision of a commons-approach to data, but whose
support has helped make the Congress a reality:
Gold Sponsor: The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Silver Sponsors: Pfizer Oncology and Creative Commons
Lunch Sponsor: NextBio

Congress Awardees Announced

JIzant — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:09:45 +0000

Eight young scientists have been selected to receive travel awards to enable them to attend the Sage Commons Congress in San Francisco. “The awardees were selected from an outstanding pool of applicants,” said Stephen Friend, President of Sage Bionetworks. “They will add real excitement to the Congress and help build a progressive network of scientists.”

The recipients are:
Michel Dumontier, Carleton University
Gang Fang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Gregory Hannum, University of California, San Diego
Joseph Owens, Northwestern University
Irene Papatheodorou, European Bioinformatics Institute and University College London
Murat Tasan, Harvard Medical School
Hannah Tipney, University of Colorado at Denver
Igor Utilsky, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

For more information on the Congress program, participants and project team activities see the Congress web site: www.sagecongress.org

Sage Commons Congress Oversubscribed

Jonathan Izant — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:52:27 +0000

Please note that due to overwhelming interest the Sage Commons Congress is oversubscribed and formally closed. Please contact Kaitlin Thaney with any further requests or questions. Information on Congress webcasts will be available shortly.

Congress Announcement

Jonathan Izant — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:11:23 +0000

Sage Bionetworks is organizing a Congress in San Francisco April 23-24, 2010 to establish the foundation for a new public domain resource, the Sage Commons. Due to overwhelming interest the Congress is oversubscribed and formally closed. Please contact Kaitlin Thaney with any further requests or questions.

The Sage Commons is a novel information platform being built by an international partnership of researchers and stakeholders to define the molecular basis of disease and guide the development of effective human therapeutics and diagnostics.

The Sage Commons will be used to integrate diverse molecular mega-data sets, to build predictive bionetworks and to offer advanced tools proven to provide unique new insights into human disease biology. Users will also be contributors that advance the knowledge base and tools through their cumulative participation.

The public access mission of the Sage Commons requires the development of a new strategic and legal framework to protect the rights of contributors while providing widespread access to integrative genomics resources.

The Sage Commons Congress will be a working meeting of diverse stakeholders (e.g. researchers, funders, industry, policy experts, media) led by international volunteer project teams who have been focusing on issues such as data standards, rewards and governance. More information on the Sage Commons concept and background can be found on the Sage Bionetworks and Creative Commons websites.

The Sage Commons is an initiative of Creative Commons and Sage Bionetworks, a new nonprofit research organization in Seattle, Washington. For more information please visit www.sagebase.org.