Title :
Managing Chaos: Lessons Learned Developing Software in the Life Sciences
Author :
Killcoyne, Sarah ; Boyle, John
Author_Institution :
Institute for Systems Biology
Abstract :
In the life sciences, the need to balance the costs and benefits of introducing software processes into a research environment presents a distinct set of challenges due to the cultural disconnect between life sciences research and software engineering. The Institute for Systems Biology´s research informatics team has studied these challenges and developed a software process to address them.
Keywords :
Chaos; Collaborative work; Isolation technology; Programming; Publishing; Software development management; Software standards; Standards development; Systems biology; Testing; Software development process; agile; life sciences research; rapid application development; software design;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/MCSE.2009.198
