About Seedcase
Who we are
The Seedcase project is developed by the four of us at the Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus and Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, and is funded by a five year grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
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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 infrastructures for managing and using data is limited. This lack of 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.