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# Description And removal of DD2 mentions. This PR needs an in-depth review. ## Checklist - [X] Formatted Markdown - [X] Ran `just run-all` --------- Co-authored-by: Luke W. Johnston <[email protected]>
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## Why we build Seedcase
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## What motivated the Seedcase Project
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In clinical and health research, especially for small- to mid-sized
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research groups, funding for building modern, open source software
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research groups, funding for building modern, open-source software
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infrastructures for managing and using data is limited. This lack of
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funding has naturally led to organizational challenges for managing
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existing and incoming data for many research initiatives, including the
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Danish Centre for Strategic Research in Type 2 Diabetes (DD2) initiative
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[@Nielsen2012; @DD2], a national research collaboration and database
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initiative established in 2010 with continual enrollment of persons with
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type 2 diabetes. DD2 is one of our collaborators and key stakeholders of
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Seedcase.
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We hope that Seedcase will improve and extend the existing DD2 research
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infrastructure into an open national state-of-the-art research
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infrastructure that will provide easy and transparent access to this
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resource for researchers, clinicians and stakeholders, thus enabling
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excellent data science driven research. Within the DD2 setting, an open,
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transparent, and easy access to this constantly growing resource has the
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potential of greatly improving the interest in, use of, and scientific
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impact of this resource, thus leading to substantial scientific and
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medical advancements, individualised treatment and improved human health
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in not only persons with type 2 diabetes, but population overall.
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Seedcase will not be limited to only DD2. Our **secondary aim** to
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create this framework in such a way that other research groups and
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companies, who are unable to adequately invest in building
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infrastructures of this type, can relatively easily implement it, and
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modify as needed, for their own purposes. By building this framework, we
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hope to help propel research groups and companies across Denmark (and
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globally) to quickly getting updated on modern, scalable, and efficient
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approaches to working with data.
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funding has naturally led to organisational challenges in managing both
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existing and incoming data for many research initiatives.
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In the Seedcase Project, we aim to improve research infrastructure by
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providing tools that ease the management of research data resources and
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improve transparency for researchers, clinicians, and stakeholders.
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Managing data is hard and can easily become time-consuming and complex.
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With the Seedcase Project, we want to provide a framework for managing
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data in a way that is scalable, efficient, and easy to use---while also
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being open source and transparent. This will allow researchers to spend
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more time on actual research by minimising the time spent on data
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management.
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More open, transparent, and easy access to data resources has the
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potential to greatly improve the interest in, use of, and scientific
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impact of those resources, enabling excellent data science-driven
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research.
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We aim to create this framework in a way that enables diverse research
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groups and companies who are unable to adequately invest in building
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infrastructures of this kind to implement it relatively easily and
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modify it as needed for their own purposes. By building this framework,
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we hope to help propel research groups and companies across Denmark (and
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globally) toward modern, scalable, and efficient approaches to working
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with data.

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