Uncovering the roots of Parkinson's disease, together

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Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) is a coordinated research initiative to accelerate discoveries for Parkinson’s disease. We are managed by the Coalition for Aligning Science (CAS) and work collaboratively with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to implement our programs. The initiative was incubated under Dr. Ekemini Riley’s leadership with support from the Sergey Brin Family Foundation.

GP2 announced the eighth data release on the Terra and the Verily® Workbench platforms in collaboration with AMP® PD, which includes 5,481 additional whole genome sequences and 10,454 clinical exome sequences.

ASAP launched the CRN Cloud, a data-sharing tool designed to advance Parkinson’s disease research by making data easily available to researchers worldwide. The platform initially includes data from a unique human postmortem-derived brain sequencing collection from 156 unique donors. We plan on releasing more data on the platform by the end of this year. Stay tuned!

iNDI-PD has added new cell lines associated with Parkinson’s disease variants to the Human iPSC catalog through The Jackson Laboratory (JAX). They are publicly available for the research community to use.

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This blog series outlines ASAP’s rationale for why we have gone above and beyond most funders to require open access articles and the sharing and identification of all research inputs and outputs that make up ASAP-funded publications.

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