Conference: Software in the life sciences: development, usability, sustainability
The importance of software is often overlooked in the life sciences. This unconference puts software center-stage and focuses on software technologies rather than specific software-driven biological discoveries. In particular, the unconference will focus on the life cycle of research software and its current unsustainable state: code rots after a PhD student/postdoc leaves the lab, funding agencies prefer to invest in publishable output instead of IT infrastructure, and career incentives for senior researchers are not aligned with long term maintenance of software. The event seeks to engage you and others in the community to get creative and to start initiatives that tackle these challenges from the bottom-up. Escape your daily work and spend two days interacting with like-minded people to develop solutions and form alliances that will improve software sustainability at the Novo Nordisk Foundation research centers. The event is organised as an unconference, meaning that all the attendees together decide what the exact agenda will be at the conference. This gives you the opportunity to bring your experiences and expectations to help shape the event resulting in topics that are most relevant to all the attendees. Fundamental to research, software affects everyone and everything in the life sciences. Even small improvements to the sustainability of scientific software have the potential to dramatically accelerate the progress of life science research as a whole, and at the NNF research centers in particular.
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