Meeting in the Middle: Towards Successful Multidisciplinary Bioimage Analysis Collaboration
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: With an increase in subject knowledge expertise required to solve specific biological questions, experts from different fields need to collaborate to address increasingly complex issues. To successfully collaborate, everyone involved in the collaboration must take steps to “meet in the middle.” We thus present a guide on truly cross-disciplinary work using bioimage analysis as a showcase, where it is required that the expertise of biologists, microscopists, data analysts, clinicians, engineers, and physicists meet. We discuss considerations and best practices from the perspective of both users and technology developers, while offering suggestions for working together productively and how this can be supported by institutes and funders. Although this guide uses bioimage analysis as an example, the guiding principles of these perspectives are widely applicable to other cross-disciplinary work.
Source: Frontiers in Bioinformatics
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,900
Funders: American Society for Engineering Education, Vanderbilt University, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Technische Universität Dresden, Moorfields Eye Charity, National Institutes of Health, Directorate for Biological Sciences, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
OpenAlex ID: W4223945485