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A Quality Management System for scientific research activities and its related management software

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1 National Research Council CNR, Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology, Palermo, Italy
2 Institute of Genetics and Biophysics ‘‘Adriano Buzzati-Traverso’’ (IGB-ABT), National Research Council, Naples, Italy
3 Valore e Qualità, Pavia, Italy
4 Institute of Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology ‘‘G. Salvatore’’ (IEOS), National Research Council, Naples, Italy
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.3316v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Ethical Issues, Science Policy
Keywords
Management of science and technology, Project Management, Quality methodology, Knowledge management, Life science research
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© 2017 Caruana et al.
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Caruana L, Pensato A, Riccobono L, Liguori G, Lanati A, Kisslinger A, Di Carlo M, Bongiovanni A. 2017. A Quality Management System for scientific research activities and its related management software. PeerJ Preprints 5:e3316v1

Abstract

Quality disciplines have been widely used for decades in industrial and business fields. It is only in recent times, however, that Quality management and approaches have received proper attention in life science. The development, optimization, validation and dissemination of an innovative way of planning and organizing research activity, inspired by Quality and Project Management principles, is the aim of the present work. Hence, we have generated a Quality Management System for a pilot life science research laboratory that deals with the housing and handling of marine organisms. Based on our Quality system, we have also created the modular software prototype Help4Lab. We could demonstrate that a proper and accurate transfer of Quality culture and methodologies to intellectual and scientific production can facilitate and strengthen scientific research.

Author Comment

This is an abstract which has been accepted for the NETTAB 2017 Workshop 35154

Additional Information

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Luca Caruana conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.

Alessandro Pensato performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.

Loredana Riccobono performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.

Giovanna Liguori conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.

Antonella Lanati conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper.

Annamaria Kisslinger conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Marta Di Carlo conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Antonella Bongiovanni conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

Help4Lab software was temporarily recorded in CNR's Intellectual Property Rights Portfolio, ref. CNR 10461

Funding

The present studies have been supported by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (CNR-Project FaReBio Farmaci e Reti Biotecnologiche di Qualita`) The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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