The power of DREAM is the power to connect.

The DREAM Challenges are crowdsourcing challenges examining questions in biology and medicine.

The DREAM Challenges are an open science effort. We are a non-profit, collaborative community effort consisting of contributors from across the research spectrum including researchers from universities; technology companies like IBM Research; not for profits, like Sage Bionetworks; and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Since the beginning of the DREAM Challenges in 2006, we have been an innovator and leader in open science, crowdsourcing challenges. The DREAM Challenge participants and organizers have numerous publications in leading journals in biology and biomedicine. Since the dawn of the DREAM Challenges, commercial crowdsourcing efforts have sprung up which utilize techniques that we pioneered.

• DREAM Challenges have an impact on biological science and human health

• Open, transparent data sharing is at our core

• DREAM Challenges are based on rigorous, reproducible science

• DREAM Challenges build communities

• Our challenge participants benefit from their experience

The F1000Research gateway previously provided a venue for groups involved in the challenges to publish peer-reviewed articles, mainly method articles and software tool articles. This allowed researchers additional credit and visibility for their work as a challenge participant.