Thought Leadership
Open science is at the heart of Aligning Science Across Parkinson's mission and work. Our vision is to facilitate a research environment where meaningful collaboration, research-enabling resources, and data sharing provide the answers we need to understand, diagnose, and treat Parkinson’s disease.
We are actively engaged with the broader open science community and have published articles, blog posts, and other resources detailing our philosophy and the framework surrounding the implementation and evaluation of our Open Science Policy. We hope that these resources assist other funders and institutions as they consider open science implementation frameworks.
ASAP Manuscripts on Open Science Practice
“Blueprint for Collaborative Open Science” (2022)
This Blueprint presents initial findings on how our approach to open science has solidified and evolved over the years, data and metrics on progress, and CC-BY versions of assets that can be adopted and adapted by others. We update the Blueprint with new findings and updated versions of these assets on a regular basis.
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“From Policy to Practice: Tracking an Open Science Funding Initiative” (2023)
In this publication, we evaluate our effectiveness in improving research output sharing using new tools developed by DataSeer.ai for all articles processed in the ASAP Compliance Workflow.
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"Investing in Open Science: Key Considerations for Funders" (2025)
In this whitepaper, we detail the costs and effort associated with each point in the ASAP Open Science Policy. We also outline ways to implement open science at various cost levels.
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Cloudy With a Chance of Multi-Omics: Expanding the CRN Cloud to Facilitate Parkinson’s Research
In this blog, ASAP discusses the expansion of the CRN Cloud platform, which has grown to house over 50 harmonized multi-omics datasets while integrating new interoperability features and analysis tools to streamline collaboration across the Parkinson’s research community.
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ASAP Launches the CRN Cloud
This Blueprint presents initial findings on how our approach to open science has solidified and evolved over the years, data and metrics on progress, and CC-BY versions of assets that can be adopted and adapted by others. We update the Blueprint with new findings and updated versions of these assets on a regular basis.
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Data Respositories Wiki
This blog series delves into specific stories about data, protocols, code, and lab materials to highlight the importance of sharing these research outputs according to the principles of Open Science.
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Open Science Guides
This suite of documents is designed to assist grantees by providing guidance on open science best practices. These documents are licensed with a CC BY license for reuse, adapting, and distribution by other funders.
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Data Respositories Wiki
ASAP developed this tool, which contains recommended repositories for the most commonly used data types in the ASAP network, as well as a brief description of best practices for sharing each data type.
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Open Science Handbook
This resource provides fine-grained detail and an unambiguous explanation of the ASAP Open Science Policy requirements.
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