Project Workstreams

The Sage Commons represents a major shift in how genomics research is conducted.  The goal of an accessible shared community environment for integrative genomics and networks biology raises questions on everything from data standards and international privacy compliance to citation and reward mechanisms and governance structures.

The opportunities and challenges incumbent in building an effective Commons are being addressed by a series of stakeholder project teams.  The participants come from a broad range of partners and include researchers, funders, media and entrepreneurs.  The teams worked for several months in advance of the Congress, as well as holding interactive workshops during the congress, to identify and prioritize core questions and do background research on how best to address each issue.  The project team workstreams helped frame Congress discussions and will continue to provide practical guidance on strategic solutions:

The linked Project Workstream Pages provide a summary of each team’s progress, goals and members:

A) Pilot: End-to-End Pilot combining Data, Building and Querying Models, and Defining Future Use Cases.

B) Standards: Standards and Ontologies for Integration, Analysis, and Exchange of Global Coherent Data Sets

C) Tools: Building Analysis and Visualization Tools with Interoperability

D) Internationalization: What will be needed to have data and models shared within an international community.

E) Citation: How to develop Methods for enabling Disease Models themselves to be citable

F) Public Engagement; The newest addition, the Public Engagement project brings together patient advocates, research foundations and medical researchers to engage and educate the community and government.

We want to hear your voice and contributions and comments are welcome either by using the comment form at the bottom of each page or by emailing the team leads directly.

Information on Congress participants, the Congress program/agenda and the news/discussion blog are also available on linked pages.