Building Sustainable Software Tools for Open Science
Supports transparent science software development for research reproducibility and community collaboration.
RFA-OD-24-010, issued by the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy, funds teams working to enhance the sustainability and open-science impact of biomedical research software tools through the R03 small-grant mechanism. The program is part of the NIH-wide Sustainable Software Tools for Open Science (SSTOS) initiative led by ODSS, which coordinated across 19 NIH institutes and centers and supported 12…
Funds R03 small grants to improve the sustainability and FAIR-principled open-science impact of biomedical research software tools through best practices and developer-user community engagement.
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