## RSDG track record (web dev)

The UCL Research Software Development Group, part of UCL ARC and led by Dr Jonathan Cooper, is a nationally leading scientific programming group, currently consisting of nearly thirty experienced research software engineers coming from both academia and industry. Founded in 2012, the group was the first of its kind in the UK, and the UCL model is now being replicated by research-intensive universities and institutes across the UK and internationally.

We collaborate with researchers to build and maintain readable, reliable and efficient scientific software, focusing on compute- and data- intensive software engineering. The members of the group provide a pool of expertise in the application to research of a great many computational techniques, technologies, languages and tools. We have worked with researchers in fields ranging from DNA whodunit software to modelling the future of the UK electricity network, from analysis of ancient Mesopotamian texts to computational fluid dynamics in brain blood vessel networks, and from large-scale analytics of healthcare data to cosmological signal processing. The group also has particular experience in the development of sustainable, reliable scientific software: we participated in the EPSRC RSE Network Grant (EP/N028902/1) and members of the group have often held fellowships from the Software Sustainability Institute (part of EP/N006410/1 and EP/S021779/1).

We have a strong track record on development of bespoke web applications for numerous research projects across UCL, most of them using the Python-based Django and Flask frameworks, although we also work with other technologies such as React, Angular, Java Spring, TypeScript and R Shiny. Our web development portfolio includes a data collection and exploration tool for The Fragments of the Roman Republican Antiquarians (H2020 ERC, 866400), a cardiac model comparison and analysis platform (BBSRC, BB/P010008/1), a ship tracking data analysis and visualisation tool for climate change as part of the ShipViz project (project data?), patient safety and research dashboards for UCL Hospital’s INFORM project, and the UCL Research Software Development Dashboard, which holds an inventory of the software created in UCL with research purposes.

Our income is approaching £2 million per annum, primarily from research councils and charities including EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC, AHRC, NIHR, NIH and the EC.

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### Django

FRRAnt - Valentina Arena, EU
Web Lab - Jonathan Cooper, BBSRC
Research Software Dashboard - UCL/RSDG

### Flask

CloudLabs - UCL/RSDG
HHYeast - Tim Levine, BBSRC
Covid-19 ISARIC automated data entry
Science gateways - Timo Betcke, Turing

### Java Spring

PopChat - Kaska Porayska-Pompsta, British Council/Newton Grant
Back-end of INFORM patient safety board - UCLH

### Angular

Oracc/Nahrein - Eleanor Robson, AHRC

### NodeJS/Carto/Leaflet

ShipViz - Tristan Smith, EU

### React

Brain Atlas - Eugenio Iglesias González, EU
Front-end INFORM patient safety dashboard - UCLH

### R Shiny

FPR Calculator - David Colqu’houn, published in Nature
Growth Charts - Tim Cole, MRC

### HTML/JavaScript

GPR calculator - Emmanuel Tsochatzis, Royal Free Hospital

### PHP/MediaWiki

Transcribe Bentham - Phillip Schofield