Challenges of Curating for Reproducible and FAIR Research Output

Peer, Limor; Arguillas, Florio; Honeyman, Tom; Miljković, Nadica; Gehlen, Karsten Peters-von; subgroup, Cure-Fair

doi:10.15497/rda00063

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“…As funding to support the reusability of software is lacking, the main responsibility of making research software FAIR falls on the researchers developing the software since they may receive only limited support to assist them in this effort. Our proposed guidelines, while crucial for enhancing software reusability, may impose an additional burden on these researchers who already grapple with significant challenges during the software development process [16][17][18] . To address this concern and ensure the FAIR-BioRS guidelines are easily accessible and widely embraced by researchers, we have developed a workflow to streamline the process of implementing the FAIR-BioRS guidelines.…”

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Making Biomedical Research Software FAIR: Actionable Step-by-step Guidelines with a User-support Tool

Patel,

Soundarajan,

Ménager

et al. 2023

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Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) guiding principles tailored for research software have been proposed by the FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) Working Group. They provide a foundation for optimizing the reuse of research software. The FAIR4RS principles are, however, aspirational and do not provide practical instructions to the researchers. To fill this gap, we propose in this work the first actionable step-by-step guidelines for biomedical researchers to make their research software compliant with the FAIR4RS principles. We designate them as the FAIR Biomedical Research Software (FAIR-BioRS) guidelines. Our process for developing these guidelines, presented here, is based on an in-depth study of the FAIR4RS principles and a thorough review of current practices in the field. To support researchers, we have also developed a workflow that streamlines the process of implementing these guidelines. This workflow is incorporated in FAIRshare, a free and open-source software application aimed at simplifying the curation and sharing of FAIR biomedical data and software through user-friendly interfaces and automation. Details about this tool are also presented.

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Making Biomedical Research Software FAIR: Actionable Step-by-step Guidelines with a User-support Tool

Patel,

Soundarajan,

Ménager

et al. 2023

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“…Given that funding to support the reusability of software is lacking, the responsibility of making research software FAIR falls on the researchers developing the software. Our proposed guidelines can thus add an additional burden on these researchers who are already facing significant challenges when developing their software [13][14][15] . To address this concern and ensure the FAIR-BioRS guidelines are easily accessible and widely embraced by researchers, we have developed a user-support tool to streamline the process of implementing the FAIR-BioRS guidelines.…”

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Making Biomedical Research Software FAIR: Actionable Step-by-step Guidelines with a User-support Tool

Patel

Soundarajan

2022

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Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) guiding principles tailored for research software have been proposed by the FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) Working Group. They provide a foundation for optimizing the reuse of research software. The FAIR4RS principles are, however, aspirational and do not provide practical instructions to the researchers. To fill this gap, we propose in this work the first actionable step-by-step guidelines for biomedical researchers to make their research software compliant with the FAIR4RS principles. We designate them as the FAIR Biomedical Research Software (FAIR-BioRS) guidelines. Our process for developing these guidelines, presented in this manuscript, is based on a re-classification of the FAIR4RS principles and a thorough review of current practices in the field. To support researchers, we have also developed a tool that streamlines the process of implementing these guidelines. This tool is incorporated in FAIRshare, a free and open-source software application aimed at simplifying the curation and sharing of FAIR biomedical data and software through user-friendly interfaces and automation. Details about this tool are also presented.

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