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Some of us (Christina Conrad, Jineta Banerjee) from Sage Bionetworks presented 2 workshops at #NFCon24 - 1: using the NF Data Portal, and 2: using AI to 💪💪 power up your daily work. ICYMI, check out the recording in the conf app! If you aren't at the conf check the slides out here! https://lnkd.in/gCeuFgQr
I tried to sneak in the AI session, but it was PACKED. Congrats on the great turnout!
These were excellent working sessions. Thank you!
What we’re not talking enough about when it comes to the recent Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics…. Data access and data privacy. This week has seen the recognition of some truly landmark progress. But we’re not going to realize the full human health potential of machine learning and AI models unless we have access to real-world health datasets. So much of this health data right now is “dark data.” Just like dark matter in our universe, it’s abundant, but it can’t be seen, accessed, or used. It means that different communities of researchers, including those in the worlds of AI/ML, can’t build models off the data that could generate new diagnostics, biomarkers, or cures. And there are important reasons for these obstacles. The privacy of patient and participant data is absolutely paramount. Open science can only move forward in the context of safe and ethical data management and reuse. We see that way forward. A way to illuminate these dark datasets while maintaining strict governance controls. Things like synthetic replicas of human datasets that contain no sensitive personal information. And AI copilots that could help new communities of scientists explore the data. At our recent on-site Home Week, Luca Foschini explains how these are the kinds of things we’re building at Sage. This is how we accelerate ethical data reuse and use this new wave of technology to improve the lives of patients. #AI #ML #NobelPrize #openscience #dataillumination
The more we understand different diseases, the more we often realize that similar genes, pathways, and molecules may be involved across tissues. So, if we can find a key biomarker, diagnostic, or treatment for one chronic disease, we might be able to apply the technology to additional systems in the body. Sage is part of a new data and technology consortium that will power systems biology to explore the mechanisms and interventions for complex diseases. With an initial $4.8M award from the The National Institutes of Health, the SysBio Initiative will create a centralized portal and tools for researchers to find, access, share, and reuse currently disconnected datasets. The bridges formed between these datasets and disciplines will help us streamline the process for bringing new treatments to patients. https://lnkd.in/gdzdnHxN Thank you to our collaborators! Verily, DataTecnica LLC, Technome, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine #HealthcareInnovation #HealthData #BiomedicalResearch #systemsbiology #openscience
Congratulations to the following winning teams of the DREAM Olfactory Mixtures Prediction Challenge. We have a quadruple tie! 🏆 belfaction 🏆 ChemSenSim Lab 🏆 D2Smell 🏆 UMich CASI Thank you to everyone who participated in this citizen science challenge to improve predictive models of how we perceive the world through scent 👃 You can learn more about the details of the challenge and the results on our Synapse platform: https://lnkd.in/gjM4EU6U DREAM Challenges powered by Sage Bionetworks
We have the results of the DREAM olfactory mixtures prediction challenge, 4 teams using a diverse set of solutions and existing approaches had similar performance, congratulations! :--)
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3moAlso, forgot to credit Anh Nguyet V. who played a key role in the workshop, my apologies!