Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing Legacy Transition

综合生物医学计算传统过渡中心

• 批准号: 10400527
• 负责人: CHRISTOPHER R. JOHNSON
• 金额: $ 16.97万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10400527
• 关键词: 3-Dimensional; Algorithms; Area; Automobile Driving; Biomedical Computing; Biomedical Technology; Code; Communities; Complex; Computer software; Data; Data Set; Documentation; Elements; Ensure; Funding; Future; Goals; Growth; Health; Image; Knowledge; Libraries; Maintenance; Publications; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Software Engineering; Software Tools; Time; United States National Institutes of Health; base; computer code; data resource; flexibility; high standard; member; models and simulation; novel; open source; operation; programs; research and development; software infrastructure; tool

Summary The Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC) has an established, twenty year record as a Biomedical Technology Research Resource (BTRR) whose focus has been technical research and development in the area of image based modeling and simulation. The resulting legacy of scientific publications, novel algorithms and computational approaches and especially a suite of software tools and data sets can continue to support a vibrant research community even as the twilight requirements of the BTRR program dictate a time limit on NIH P41 funding. However, while already in heavy use, many of the existing, open source, software tools require additional hardening, documentation, and user-interface support to reach their full potential. More important, the software engineering and infrastructure, even though they represent the highest standards available from an academic center, are not yet robust and flexible enough to sustain easy maintenance and extension by a community outside the CIBC, a key element to ensuring the continued health and growth of the impact of these tools beyond the lifetime of the BTRR. Finally, there are existing collaborators and Driving Biomedical Project (DBP) partners whose research would suffer with the pending cessation of operations of the BTRR. We propose a transition plan to achieve long term sustainability of the software and data resources that the CIBC has produced. The goal of this plan is to complete the conversion of all the technical products achieved over the lifetime of the Center into well crafted, validated computer code with all the necessary support for both users and future maintainers of the code base. We seek to convert our open-source software into something far more valuable: community supported and sustained software. The conversion will require the assistance of a professional software house that is familiar with the necessary steps and with the technical domain of our center, Kitware Inc. Kitware is a company with a long history of assisting biomedical researchers to develop highly complex software packages and libraries, including VTK, ITK, 3D Slicer, and ParaView. Members of the CIBC have collaborated with Kitware in the past so there is a proven relationship on which to pursue the proposed transition plan. This combination of the domain specific knowledge of the specific tools within the twenty years of the CIBC, along with the ability of Kitware to support and deploy software and data, will ensure a successful transition and a lasting legacy from this BTRR.

摘要 综合生物医学计算中心(CIBC)已经建立了20年的记录 作为生物医学技术研究资源(BTRR)，其重点一直是技术 基于图像的建模和仿真领域的研究和开发。由此产生的 科学出版物、新算法和计算方法的遗产，特别是 一套软件工具和数据集甚至可以继续支持一个充满活力的研究社区 由于BTRR计划的黄昏要求规定了NIH P41资金的时间限制。 然而，虽然已经在大量使用，但许多现有的开源软件工具需要 额外的强化、文档和用户界面支持，以充分发挥其潜力。更多 重要的是，软件工程和基础设施，即使它们代表最高 学术中心提供的标准还不够强大和灵活，不足以维持 由CIBC之外的社区轻松维护和扩展，这是确保 这些工具的持续健康和增长的影响超出了《生物多样性公约》的有效期。 最后，还有现有的合作者和推动生物医学项目(DBP)的合作伙伴 研究将因BTRR即将停止运作而受到影响。 我们提出了一个过渡计划，以实现软件和数据的长期可持续性 加拿大帝国商业银行生产的资源。这项计划的目标是完成所有 在中心的整个生命周期内实现的技术产品都经过精心制作和验证 为代码的用户和未来的维护人员提供所有必要支持的计算机代码 基地。我们寻求将我们的开源软件转变为更有价值的东西：社区 支持和持续的软件。改装将需要专业人员的协助 熟悉必要步骤并熟悉我们的技术领域的软件公司 Kitware Inc.是一家在帮助生物医学研究人员方面有着悠久历史的公司 开发高度复杂的软件包和库，包括VTK、ITK、3D Slicer和 ParaView。CIBC的成员过去曾与Kitware合作过，因此有一个经过验证的 执行拟议的过渡计划所依据的关系。域的这种组合 在CIBC的二十年内对特定工具的具体知识，以及能力 支持和部署软件和数据的工具包将确保成功过渡和 这个BTRR留下了持久的遗产。