When Worlds Collide: Molecular Biology as Interdisciplinary Collaboration

O‘Day, Vicki L.; Adler, Annette; Kuchinsky, Allan; Bouch, Anna

doi:10.1007/0-306-48019-0_21

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“…In LTER, technology change is intimately intertwined with the changes going on in ecological research that -like all scientific enterprises -continuously reformulates and identifies new questions (Pickett et al, 1999;O'Day et al, 2001). Though change is ongoing, it is not necessarily a simple incremental process, nor a wholesale displacement and transformation (cf.…”

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confidence: 98%

Enriching the Notion of Data Curation in E-Science: Data Managing and Information Infrastructuring in the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network

Karasti

Baker

Halkola

2006

Comput Supported Coop Work

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This paper aims to enrich the current understanding of data curation prevalent in e-Science by drawing on an ethnographic study of one of the longest-running efforts at longterm consistent data collection with open data sharing in an environment of interdisciplinary collaboration. In such a context we identify a set of salient characteristics of ecological research and data that shape the data stewardship approach of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network. We describe the actual practices through which LTER information managers attend to the extended temporal scale of long-term research and data sets both through data care work and information infrastructure development. We discuss the issues of long-term and continuity that represent central challenges for data curation and stewardship. We argue for more efforts to be directed to understanding what is at stake with a long-term perspective and differing temporal scales as well as to studying actual practices of data curation and stewardship in order to provide more coherent understandings of e-Science solutions and technologies.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Enriching the Notion of Data Curation in E-Science: Data Managing and Information Infrastructuring in the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network

Karasti

Baker

Halkola

2006

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117

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“…O'Day et al [29] studied collaborations between biologists dealing with microarray data and computer scientists, statisticians and mathematicians. They describe how software tools play the role of boundary objects: although the actual object is the same, each discipline interprets it differently.…”

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“…In exploratory research domains such as biology, a key challenge for computer scientists is to develop highly-flexible tools that address variants of problems [29]. Some software tools, such as Web interfaces that wrap local programs [17], simple data editors or large scientific databases are relatively easy to make flexible.…”

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Participatory programming and the scope of mutual responsibility

Letondal

Mackay

2004

Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Participatory Design Artful Integration: Interweaving Media, Materials and Practices -

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Over the past seven years, we have been conducting a variety of participatory design activities with research biologists, programmers, and bioinformaticians at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. We first describe the history of these activities and how they have created the beginnings of a participatory design culture. We introduce participatory programming, which integrates participatory design and end-user programming, and examine how it acts as a medium for forging scientific ideas. Finally, we reflect on three poles of activity: the computational medium, scientific hypotheses and participatory design.

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“…Second, biomedical research in particular is highly competitive and many researchers involved are unwilling to share and trust [7–9]. Third, many scientists are reluctant to trust unfamiliar tools which often results in lack of adoption of core technologies [10]. Fourth, physical proximity is known to be important to scientific collaboration due to the necessity of informal communications in fostering collaborative environment, yet interdisciplinary biomedical researchers often lack proximity with their collaborators [11,12].…”

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Incorporating collaboratory concepts into informatics in support of translational interdisciplinary biomedical research

Lee¹,

McDonald²,

Anderson³

et al. 2009

International Journal of Medical Informatics

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Due to its complex nature, modern biomedical research has become increasingly interdisciplinary and collaborative in nature. Although a necessity, interdisciplinary biomedical collaboration is difficult. There is, however, a growing body of literature on the study and fostering of collaboration in fields such as computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) and information science (IS). These studies of collaboration provide insight into how to potentially alleviate the difficulties of interdisciplinary collaborative research. We, therefore, undertook a cross cutting study of science and engineering collaboratories to identify emergent themes. We review many relevant collaboratory concepts: (a) general collaboratory concepts across many domains: communication, common workspace and coordination, and data sharing and management, (b) specific collaboratory concepts of particular biomedical relevance: data integration and analysis, security structure, metadata and data provenance, and interoperability and data standards, (c) environmental factors that support collaboratories: administrative and management structure, technical support, and available funding as critical environmental factors, and (d) future considerations for biomedical collaboration: appropriate training and long-term planning. In our opinion, the collaboratory concepts we discuss can guide planning and design of future collaborative infrastructure by biomedical informatics researchers to alleviate some of the difficulties of interdisciplinary biomedical collaboration.

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When Worlds Collide: Molecular Biology as Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Cited by 15 publications

References 15 publications

Enriching the Notion of Data Curation in E-Science: Data Managing and Information Infrastructuring in the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network

Enriching the Notion of Data Curation in E-Science: Data Managing and Information Infrastructuring in the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network

Participatory programming and the scope of mutual responsibility

Incorporating collaboratory concepts into informatics in support of translational interdisciplinary biomedical research

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