Open-source Software Sustainability Models: Initial White Paper From the Informatics Technology for Cancer Research Sustainability and Industry Partnership Working Group

Ye Ye   ¹ , BMED, MSPH, PhD ;   Seemran Barapatre   ¹ ;   Michael K Davis   ¹ , MS ;   Keith O Elliston   ^{2, 3, 4} , PhD ;   Christos Davatzikos   ⁵ , PhD ;   Andrey Fedorov   ⁶ , PhD ;   Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin   ⁷ , MSc ;   Ian Foster   ⁸ , PhD ;   John R Gilbertson   ¹ , MD ;   Andras Lasso   ⁹ , PhD ;   James V Miller   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Martin Morgan   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Steve Pieper   ¹² , PhD ;   Brigitte E Raumann   ¹³ , PhD ;   Brion D Sarachan   ¹⁰ , MEng ;   Guergana Savova   ¹⁴ , PhD ;   Jonathan C Silverstein   ¹ , MD, MS ;   Donald P Taylor   ¹ , MBA, PhD, CLP ;   Joyce B Zelnis   ¹ , BS ;   Guo-Qiang Zhang   ¹⁵ , MS, PhD ;   Jamie Cuticchia   ² , PhD, JD ;   Michael J Becich   ¹ , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

² Axiomedix, Inc., Bedford, MA, United States

³ PHEMI Systems Corp., Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁴ tranSMART foundation, Wakefield, MA, United States

⁵ Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

⁶ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁷ Kitware Inc., Clifton Park, NY, United States

⁸ Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

⁹ The Perk Lab for Percutaneous Surgery, School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada

¹⁰ GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, United States

¹¹ Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, United States

¹² Isomics Inc., Cambridge, MA, United States

¹³ Globus, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

¹⁴ Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

¹⁵ The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States