CSBC Data And Resource Coordinating Center
As the Data and Resource coordinating center for the CSBC program, Sage Bionetworks is dedicated to fostering an open and collaborative scientific culture in which CSBC researchers can rapidly collaborate across institutional boundaries. We work to engage all the centers at the level of active scientific research in order to build a unified interface to program resources. Using the Synapse informatics platform, we are able to provide centralized environment that supports active collaboration while research is in progress, rather than simply an archival system for completed study resources. Synapse helps scientific teams integrate disparate data, find and correct analysis errors faster, and organize diverse teams around complex scientific problems. Unplanned and innovative connections among projects emerge across initial project boundaries over time because all these projects are hosted on the same service, and the work is publicly visible. As the CSBC coordinating center, we also engage scientific communities and the public around CSBC and PS-ON data and interests through activities such as DREAM challenges, curriculum, and the CSBC website.

Julie Bletz, PhD, Director

James Eddy, PhD, Director

Verena Chung, Bioinformatics Engineer
Verena Chung is a Python enthusiast whose core focus is to help promote Open Science and FAIR data practices, including data from CSBC. As a bioinformatics engineer at Sage Bionetworks, she helps build and maintain tools and resources that others can leverage to upload and explore data.

Brynn Zalmanek, Associate Bioinformatics Analyst/Engineer
Brynn is a Data Curator at Sage Bionetworks with a background in library science. She curates the publications, datasets, and tools in the CSBC portal and works on refining the metadata so that the resources CSBC generates can be found, accessed, and reused.

Amber Nelson, Administrative Coordinator
Amber Nelson has more than 12 years of experience working in nonprofits, supporting everything ranging from operations and data management, to fundraising and marketing. At Sage Bionetworks she uses this experience to support science coordination and community engagement efforts for projects like CSBC.