Models for financial sustainability of biological databases and resources Export

@article{citeulike:6040655, abstract = {Following the technological advances that have enabled genome-wide analysis in most model organisms over the last decade, there has been unprecedented growth in genomic and post-genomic science with concomitant generation of an exponentially increasing volume of data and material resources. As a result, numerous repositories have been created to store and archive data, organisms and material, which are of substantial value to the whole community. Sustained access, facilitating re-use of these resources, is essential, not only for validation, but for re-analysis, testing of new hypotheses and developing new technologies/platforms. A common challenge for most data resources and biological repositories today is finding financial support for maintenance and development to best serve the scientific community. In this study we examine the problems that currently confront the data and resource infrastructure underlying the biomedical sciences. We discuss the financial sustainability issues and potential business models that could be adopted by biological resources and consider long term preservation issues within the context of mouse functional genomics efforts in Europe. 10.1093/database/bap017}, author = {Chandras, Christina and Weaver, Thomas and Zouberakis, Michael and Smedley, Damian and Schughart, Klaus and Rosenthal, Nadia and Hancock, John M. and Kollias, George and Schofield, Paul N. and Aidinis, Vassilis}, citeulike-article-id = {6040655}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/bap017}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://database.oxfordjournals.org/content/2009/bap017.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://database.oxfordjournals.org/content/2009/bap017.full.pdf}, day = {23}, doi = {10.1093/database/bap017}, journal = {Database}, keywords = {sociology\_of\_science}, month = {October}, number = {0}, pages = {bap017+}, posted-at = {2009-10-30 07:52:49}, priority = {2}, title = {Models for financial sustainability of biological databases and resources}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/bap017}, volume = {2009}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6040655 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6040655 N2 - Following the technological advances that have enabled genome-wide analysis in most model organisms over the last decade, there has been unprecedented growth in genomic and post-genomic science with concomitant generation of an exponentially increasing volume of data and material resources. As a result, numerous repositories have been created to store and archive data, organisms and material, which are of substantial value to the whole community. Sustained access, facilitating re-use of these resources, is essential, not only for validation, but for re-analysis, testing of new hypotheses and developing new technologies/platforms. A common challenge for most data resources and biological repositories today is finding financial support for maintenance and development to best serve the scientific community. In this study we examine the problems that currently confront the data and resource infrastructure underlying the biomedical sciences. We discuss the financial sustainability issues and potential business models that could be adopted by biological resources and consider long term preservation issues within the context of mouse functional genomics efforts in Europe. 10.1093/database/bap017 IS - 0 JF - Database TI - Models for financial sustainability of biological databases and resources VL - 2009 SP - bap017 KW - sociology_of_science AU - Chandras, Christina AU - Weaver, Thomas AU - Zouberakis, Michael AU - Smedley, Damian AU - Schughart, Klaus AU - Rosenthal, Nadia AU - Hancock, John AU - Kollias, George AU - Schofield, Paul AU - Aidinis, Vassilis PY - 2009/10/23/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/bap017 ER -