Synapse — A Collaborative Platform for Open Biomedical Science
Synapse is a collaborative data-sharing and analysis platform built and operated by Sage Bionetworks, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit biomedical research organization based in Seattle, Washington.
About Sage Bionetworks
Sage Bionetworks is a nonprofit research organization whose mission is to drive a new age of discovery through truly open science and radical collaboration.
Our vision is to create a world where silos within and across science and technology no longer exist, forging a path to optimal human health.
We are a trusted leader in data sharing and reuse, enabling a rapid acceleration in biomedical discoveries and the transformation of medicine. Better Science Together is the principle that guides our work with researchers, clinicians, patient communities, and funders worldwide.
What Synapse Does
Synapse is the platform Sage Bionetworks uses to make biomedical research data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). Researchers, clinicians, and data scientists use Synapse to:
- Share large biomedical datasets across institutions, with appropriate access controls, data-use agreements, and governance.
- Run reproducible analyses on shared data with documented provenance.
- Coordinate consortium science across disease areas including Alzheimer's disease, neurofibromatosis, ALS, rare cancers, and others.
- Power public-facing knowledge portals such as the AD Knowledge Portal, the NF Data Portal, and the ALS Knowledge Portal.
Nonprofit Identity
Sage Bionetworks
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit research organization
EIN: 26-4489946
Seattle, Washington, USA
sagebionetworks.org
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