A large-scale analysis of bioinformatics code on GitHub

Dec 10, 2018 1 min read 👏

Publishing date: 2018-12-10

Published on: PLOS ONE

summary: In recent years, the explosion of genomic data and bioinformatic tools has been accompanied by a growing conversation around reproducibility of results and usability of software. Here, Russell et al investigate the state of source code in the bioinformatics community, specifically looking at relationships between code properties, development activity, developer communities, and software impact.

authors: Pamela H. Russell, Rachel L. Johnson, Shreyas Ananthan, Benjamin Harnke, Nichole E. Carlson

link to paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0205898

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