Sage Bionetworks

Sage Bionetworks is a brand that specializes in developing and implementing open science practices for data-intensive research. They are committed to responsible data sharing and benchmarking reliable methods. As a leader in the field, Sage Bionetworks facilitates research collaborations by overseeing data coordination, visualization, and analytics across distributed teams.

They manage grant- or project-based research consortia to foster the sharing, evaluation, and distribution of data, methods, and insights. They have also developed tools to objectively benchmark the performance of computational methods and disseminate community-verified methods, addressing the self-assessment bias that researchers can face. Sage Bionetworks is dedicated to understanding the impact of real-world environments on individual health and disease, working closely with participants and researchers in the digital health space.

They offer a suite of web services and tools called Synapse to facilitate data aggregation, organization, analysis, and sharing. Additionally, their Bridge platform allows researchers to collect digital measures of human health using smartphones and other remote sensors. Sage Bionetworks also provides resources and policies, such as novel approaches to informed consent and data access, through their Governance Toolkit.

By advancing responsible data sharing, reliable methods, and real-world evidence, Sage Bionetworks promotes better science and accelerates the translation of scientific discoveries into medical breakthroughs