Tools Optimization

The Tools Optimization working group will serve as a national and multi-national hub for algorithmic and methodologic innovation, benchmarking, standardization, optimization, and dissemination. The Tools Optimization working group is envisioned as a Commons, servicing a broad and diverse range of stakeholders, including the Bridge2AI Grand Challenges (GCs), data consumers, algorithm developers, algorithm users, citizen scientists, regulatory bodies and members of the public. Each stakeholder has their own battery of needs, which the Tools Optimization working group addresses by establishing a nexus of expertise, innovation, and dissemination that will support tool optimization across Bridge2AI.

The Tools Optimization working group will be a hub for algorithm development, benchmarking, optimization, and dissemination across Bridge2AI, delivering: advice to GCs in tool development, benchmarking, and software engineering; open and coordinated tool development within and beyond Bridge2AI, with area-specific working groups; regular Bridge2AI-wide benchmarks of key tools, linked to gold standard data and educational materials (with Training, Recruitment, and Mentoring); a harmonized database of tools used across Bridge2AI, linked to systematic meta-information (with Standards, Practices, and Quality Assessment); tool search and help interfaces customized for stakeholder groups; consensus workshops and systematic training materials on Bridge2AI-wide best analytical practices (with Training, Recruitment, and Mentoring); ongoing identification of gaps in tool development across Bridge2AI; and focused algorithm-development efforts internally and through funding to fill tool and data gaps within the program. Through its efforts, the Tools Optimization working group will foster dissemination of best practices.

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