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A summary of the organizations described in this report |
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| Organization |
Type |
Application(s) and Users |
Team Size |
Previous Approach |
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| Applied Biosystems |
Commercial |
A custom workflow engine as a component to be used by developers of products. |
Two developers, a part time project manager, and a customer. |
Approach based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Academic |
A community tool to collect, analyze, report, and share genetic sequence data. |
Four engineers for both developing this application and maintaining legacy systems. |
Approach similar to the Rational Unified Process (RUP) |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
Academic |
A freely available, open source cancer pathway database with a growing array of public users. |
One scientific lead, and one architect/developer. |
None. Agile-like practices used since inception of project. |
| National Cancer Institute |
Government (supported by a commercial contractor) |
A variety of tools to integrate and visualize integromic data set that are made available to the public. |
Three engineers and a bioinformatics analyst. |
No explicit process |
| Northwestern University Center for Functional Genomics |
Academic |
Two projects written at the Center, with users onsite and at two other institutions participating in a consortium. |
Three to five developers, domain and quality assurance staff. |
No explicit process |
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| Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
Academic |
A clinical support application. |
Three developers and additional quality assurance and configuration management support staff. |
A plan driven development approach that emphasized extensive up front design |
Kane et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2006 7:273 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-273 |
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