The FAIR-BioRS guidelines were developed in collaboration with researchers from UCSF and ELIXIR (E.U.). We first established a list of outstanding questions we identified for practically implementing the FAIR4RS Principles (e.g., How to obtain a unique identifier for software? How to include metadata? and so on). Then we combined literature review, community feedback, and our own assessment as developers of research software to established answers for these questions. Finally, we organized these answers as a set of step-by-step instructions that follow the typical sofware development process which became the FAIR-BioRS guidelines.

The FAIR-BioRS guidelines where conceived while working on a project funded through a supplemental award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Besides some initial effort through this project for the first few months, the development of the guidelines has been done without any support, through the sole will of the project members to make it easier for our peers wanting to develop and share FAIR software.

The FAIR-BioRS guidelines were developed in collaboration with Dr. Zicheng Hu (UCSF) and Dr. Hervé Ménager (Institut Pasteur, ELIXIR).