Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing Legacy Transition

综合生物医学计算传统过渡中心

• 批准号: 10402301
• 负责人: CHRISTOPHER R. JOHNSON
• 金额: $ 47.05万
• 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/10402301
• 关键词: 3-Dimensional; Algorithms; Area; Automobile Driving; Biomedical Computing; Biomedical Technology; Brain; Code; Communities; Community Developments; Complex; Computational algorithm; Computer Systems; Computer software; Confocal Microscopy; Data; Data Set; Development; Documentation; Educational workshop; Elements; Ensure; Event; Funding; Future; Galium; Goals; Growth; Head; Health; Image; Internet; Knowledge; Label; Libraries; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Maintenance; Manuals; Modeling; Process; Publications; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Software Engineering; Software Tools; Support System; System; Testing; Time; United States National Institutes of Health; Visualization; X-Ray Computed Tomography; base; bioelectricity; computer code; data resource; flexibility; high standard; improved; infrastructure development; interoperability; member; microscopic imaging; models and simulation; novel; open data; open source; operation; outreach; portability; programs; research and development; simulation; software development; software infrastructure; software systems; success; sustainable resource; tool; usability

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.

概括 综合生物医学计算中心（CIBC）已建立了二十年的记录 作为生物医学技术研究资源（BTRR），其重点是技术 基于图像的建模和仿真领域的研发。结果 科学出版物的遗产，新颖的算法和计算方法，尤其是 一套软件工具和数据集也可以继续支持充满活力的研究社区 随着BTRR计划的暮光要求决定了NIH P41资金的时间限制。 但是，尽管已经大量使用，但许多现有的开源，软件工具都需要 额外的硬化，文档和用户界面支持，以发挥其全部潜力。更多的 重要的是，即使软件工程和基础架构是最高的 学术中心可用的标准尚不强大，灵活以维持 CIBC以外的社区易于维护和扩展，这是确保的关键要素 除了BTRR的一生之外，这些工具的影响的持续健康和增长。 最后，有现有的合作者和驾驶生物医学项目（DBP）合作伙伴 研究将遭受BTRR运营的待处理。 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 CIBC生产的资源。该计划的目的是完成所有人的转换 中心一生中实现的技术产品成熟，经过良好的验证 对用户和未来维护者的所有必要支持的计算机代码 根据。我们试图将我们的开源软件转换为更有价值的东西：社区 支持和持续的软件。转换将需要专业人员的协助 熟悉必要步骤以及我们的技术领域的软件房屋 Center，Kitware Inc. Kitware是一家拥有悠久历史的公司，可帮助生物医学研究人员 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，因此有一个经过验证的 追求拟议过渡计划的关系。域的这种组合 CIBC二十年内特定工具的特定知识以及能力 为支持和部署软件和数据的Kitware的Kitware，将确保成功过渡和 这个BTRR的持久遗产。