Author/Editor		Chandras, Christina; Weaver, Thomas; Zouberakis, Michael; Smedley, Damian; Schughart, Klaus; Rosenthal, Nadia; Hancock, John M.; Kollias, George; Schofield, Paul N.; Aidinis, Vassilis
Title		Models for financial sustainability of biological databases and resources
Type		članek
Vol. and No.		, št. Vol. 2009
Publication year		2009
Volume		str. 1-9
ISSN		1758-0463 - Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Language		eng
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 hypoth- eses 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.
Keywords		genome biological databases financial sustainability genom biološka baza podatkov finančna vzdržnost