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Sage Bionetworks and DREAM are convinced that running open computational Challenges focused on important unsolved questions in systems biomedicine can help advance basic and translational science. By presenting the research community with well-formulated questions that usually involve complex data, we effectively enable the sharing and improvement of predictive models, accelerating many-fold the analysis of such data. The ultimate goal, beyond the competitive aspect of these Challenges, is to foster collaborations of like-minded researchers that together will find the solution for vexing problems that matter most to citizens and patients.
About Synapse
Synapse is an open computational platform intentionally designed to facilitate new ways for data analysts and DREAM Challenge participants to work with data and with each other. Synapse reinforces the power of DREAM Challenges to catalyze a diverse community of researchers to nucleate around a particular scientific Challenge and even makes it possible to run Challenges off of high dimensional human data. Synapse’s engaging features such as real-time leaderboards, code-sharing and provenance tracking incentivize continuous participation in DREAM Challenges and lead to the sharing of thousands of predictive models that would otherwise take years to produce using the usual siloed research paradigms.
DREAM8 Press Releases
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