Sage Bionetworks Agora Platform

Sage Bionetworks has launched the Agora platform, a web-based tool that allows researchers to explore curated genomic analyses of Alzheimer's disease. The analyses resulted from the Accelerating Medicines Partnership – Alzheimer's Disease (AMP-AD) Target Discovery and Preclinical Validation Project, a public-private partnership led by the National Institute on Aging and managed by the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH). Through the Agora portal, which will be frequently updated, the analyses are now available to researchers outside the AMP-AD consortium. The initial release includes differential expression and co-expression network meta-analyses across four human RNA sequence data sets. Future releases will include human proteomic and metabolomic analyses, comparative evaluations of disease signatures across species, and druggability and tractability information to guide the selection of targets for early drug discovery.