Research Software Sustainability in Biology: A Position Paper on Maintenance Funding

Abstract

Research Software Sustainability in Biology has moved quickly from a niche research question to something a wider community
can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the
current evidence for research software sustainability in biology, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost
angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely working it out
for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout
or blanket avoidance.