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Expand Up @@ -26,35 +26,33 @@ Software Engineer](images/marton.jpg){.profile-picture}
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## Why we build Seedcase
## What motivated the Seedcase Project

In clinical and health research, especially for small- to mid-sized
research groups, funding for building modern, open source software
research groups, funding for building modern, open-source software
infrastructures for managing and using data is limited. This lack of
funding has naturally led to organizational challenges for managing
existing and incoming data for many research initiatives, including the
Danish Centre for Strategic Research in Type 2 Diabetes (DD2) initiative
[@Nielsen2012; @DD2], a national research collaboration and database
initiative established in 2010 with continual enrollment of persons with
type 2 diabetes. DD2 is one of our collaborators and key stakeholders of
Seedcase.

We hope that Seedcase will improve and extend the existing DD2 research
infrastructure into an open national state-of-the-art research
infrastructure that will provide easy and transparent access to this
resource for researchers, clinicians and stakeholders, thus enabling
excellent data science driven research. Within the DD2 setting, an open,
transparent, and easy access to this constantly growing resource has the
potential of greatly improving the interest in, use of, and scientific
impact of this resource, thus leading to substantial scientific and
medical advancements, individualised treatment and improved human health
in not only persons with type 2 diabetes, but population overall.

Seedcase will not be limited to only DD2. Our **secondary aim** to
create this framework in such a way that other research groups and
companies, who are unable to adequately invest in building
infrastructures of this type, can relatively easily implement it, and
modify as needed, for their own purposes. By building this framework, we
hope to help propel research groups and companies across Denmark (and
globally) to quickly getting updated on modern, scalable, and efficient
approaches to working with data.
funding has naturally led to organisational challenges in managing both
existing and incoming data for many research initiatives.

In the Seedcase Project, we aim to improve research infrastructure by
providing tools that ease the management of research data resources and
improve transparency for researchers, clinicians, and stakeholders.
Managing data is hard and can easily become time-consuming and complex.
With the Seedcase Project, we want to provide a framework for managing
data in a way that is scalable, efficient, and easy to use---while also
being open source and transparent. This will allow researchers to spend
more time on actual research by minimising the time spent on data
management.

More open, transparent, and easy access to data resources has the
potential to greatly improve the interest in, use of, and scientific
impact of those resources, enabling excellent data science-driven
research.

We aim to create this framework in a way that enables diverse research
groups and companies who are unable to adequately invest in building
infrastructures of this kind to implement it relatively easily and
modify it as needed for their own purposes. By building this framework,
we hope to help propel research groups and companies across Denmark (and
globally) toward modern, scalable, and efficient approaches to working
with data.