NCBO Webinar: Accelerating Health Advances through Open Challenges - May 1 at 10am PDT

The next NCBO Webinar will be presented by Mike Kellen from Sage
Bionetworks on "Accelerating Health Advances through Open Challenges" at
10:00am PDT, Wednesday, May 1.  Below is information on how to join the
online meeting via WebEx and accompanying teleconference. For the full
schedule of the NCBO Webinar presentations see:
http://www.bioontology.org/webinar-series.


ABSTRACT:
Sage Bionetworks is a nonprofit organization working to transform the
biomedical research space into a new paradigm in which precompetitive
analysis in basic research can enable faster and better advancements in
biomedical discoveries.  To this aim, Sage has developed Synapse, a
software platform that delivers the underlying infrastructure to enable
online communities of networked collaborators to analyze clinical, genomic,
and other biomedical data.  Posing research questions as open challenges on
Synapse has proven an effective mechanism to catalyze the formation of
these communities, as evidenced by our experiences hosting the Sage / DREAM
Breast Cancer Prediction challenge in 2012 and developing the 2013 DREAM
challenges program. These challenges can be seeded or enriched by the use
of large public datasets such as the TCGA collection of tumor genetic
data.  In this seminar, Dr. Kellen will discuss the Synapse technology
platform and data repository, and its potential to impact large-scale
collaborative research.


SPEAKER BIO:
Dr. Kellen is the Director of Technology Platform and Services for Sage
Bionetworks, where he leads efforts to develop Synapse and other Sage
technology initiatives.  Prior to joining Sage, Dr. Kellen worked in a
commercial bioinformatics startup where he brought several technology
products to market and held positions in engineering and product
management.  He holds a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of
Washington.


WEBEX DETAILS:
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Meeting information
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Date: May 1, 2013
Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
Meeting Number: 925 343 903
Meeting Password: ncbo

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To start or join the online meeting
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Go to
https://stanford.webex.com/stanford/j.php?ED=175352027&UID=481527042&PW=NYjM4OTVlZTFj&RT=MiM0

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Audio conference information
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Access code:925 343 903



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