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# Open research in life science:
## Funding foundational tools, trust, and talent
Yo Yehudi - Open Source Tech Lead
Data for Science and Health - Wellcome Trust
FOSDEM 2021
Twitter: @yoyehudi
Fediverse: @yoyehudi@scholar.social
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# Meet Sam
Sam does science in a lab, and is what many people might think of as a "traditional" scientist.
<img src="images/sam.png" alt="image of a person in a labcoat with a microscope" width="350px" height="408px"/>
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# Now meet Joy
Joy works in the same area as Sam, but writes computer code to do their work, a **non-traditional academic output**.
<img src="images/joy.png" alt="image of a person in a labcoat working at a computer" width="437px" height="408px"/>
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# It's all essential
Sam and Joy both do essential research work, but we'll be focusing on Joy, and some of the challenges they face
<img src="images/sam-and-joy.jpg" alt="sam and joy - two researchers in coats, one using a microscope and one with a computer" width="700px" height="366px"/>
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# Challenges for computational research
### Missing computational _tools_ for research, insufficient incentive to draw, retain, and reward _talent_, and insufficient _trust_ in computational work.
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# Tools
- Much research is so niche the computational tools needed may not exist, _and yet..._
- Sometimes it's the opposite, and tools are fragmented across many software tools and standards.
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# Trust
A lot of tech has a **bad name** for a **good reason** - companies, governments, healthcare officials, and researchers don't always use people's data in trustworthy ways.
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# Talent
- Code is not papers
- Good practice may not be directly appreciated (except by future you and other maintainers)
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# Talent
- May not be shared, or may not be open in spirit
- Researchers may (justifiably) feel the need to hide the code aspects of their work in a grant application, or not realise they are doing (or should be doing) software engineering / data science
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# Talent
## Places where diversity tends to be bad:
- software engineering is bad,
- open source
- some research domains.
We're at the intersection of these places!
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# Data for Science and Health
### Our goal: To fund the Tools, Talent, Trust that makes trustworthy data science a first-class citizen in the research ecosystem
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# Wellcome's focus
The Wellcome Trust's strategy focuses on three primary areas, as well as a broader "discovery research" umbrella:
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- Global heating
- Mental health
- Infectious disease
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# Open work we've (co-)funded so far
**afrimapr**
Open source components and training to ease the use of health data by analysts in Africa [github.com/afrimapr](https://github.com/afrimapr)
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# Open work we've (co-)funded so far
**OpenSAFELY**
Open tool to make computational work across healthcare data secure and safe. [github.com/opensafely](https://github.com/opensafely/)
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# Shining a spotlight on the **good**
Well-done software means focusing on maintainable code, but also on:
- Documentation (for users _and_ developers)
- Accessibility (in the sense of [a11y](https://www.a11yproject.com/), rather than [FAIR](https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/))
- Healthy and diverse community
- UX (User Experience)
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# Interested / think there might be a good fit?
We're curating a blog to spotlight good practice in open source research.
Currently looking for:
- Software to share (in the form of a repo, docs, papers, blogs, podcasts, notebooks, useful tools, etc.)
- Guest editors to help curate collections of 2-4 tools
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# Interested / think there might be a good fit?
If you have a project idea for a software tool that you think might fit into our funding interests, [please contact us](https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-work/data-science-and-health-trustworthy-data-science)!
My email: [y.yehudi@wellcome.org](mailto:y.yehudi@wellcome.org)
The team: [ContactDataForScienceAndHealth@wellcome.org](mailto:ContactDataForScienceAndHealth@wellcome.org)
Twitter: [yoyehudi](https://twitter.com/yoyehudi)
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