Ensuring sustainability of software tools and services by cooperation with a research infrastructure. (January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kuchinke, Wolfgang; Ohmann, Christian; Stenzhorn, Holger; Anguista, Alberto; Sfakianakis, Stelios; Graf, Norbert; Demotes, Jacques
• Is Part Of: Personalized medicine. Volume 13:Number 1(2016)
• Page Start: 43
• Page End: 55
• Publication Date: 2016-01
• Subjects: certification -- clinical trials -- ECRIN -- good clinical practice -- personalized medicine -- research infrastructure -- services -- software -- sustainability; Pharmacogenomics -- Periodicals; Pharmacogenetics -- Periodicals; 615.19
• DOI: 10.2217/pme.15.43
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-0541

Abstract

Sustainability of project output and especially of the maintenance and further development of software is of growing concern for the research community. In the personalized medicine project p-medicine solutions that address this sustainability problem were developed and discussed in a workshop. They involve a number of interrelated and mutually supportive measures including the creation of a service center, building modular software, using common data standards, mutual service exchange with a research infrastructure, Open Source and fee-based software provision, joint promotion and deployment of tools in a regulated, clinical trial situation. These ideas join a nascent literature seeking to understand how project output can be put into a sustainable environment and to suggest solutions that may be useful for academic projects in general.