The rise of openly available software and source code alongside concomitant collaborative development is facilitated by the existence of several code repository services such as SourceForge, Bitbucket, GitLab, and GitHub, among others. All software used for the analysis should be either carefully documented (e.g., for commercial software) or, better yet, openly shared and directly accessible to others. To enable and ensure the replicability and traceability of scientific claims, it is essential that the scientific publication, the corresponding datasets, and the data analysis are made publicly available.
The views described here reflect their own views without input from any third party organization.īioinformatics is a broad discipline in which one common denominator is the need to produce and/or use software that can be applied to biological data in different contexts. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have no affiliation with GitHub, nor with any other commercial entity mentioned in this article. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.įunding: This study was supported by Wellcome Trust ( ), BBSRC ( ), BMBF grant de.NBI - German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (FKZ031 A 534A) ( ), NIH grant numbers R01-GM-094231 and R01-EB-017205 ( ), EPSRC ( ), NSF grant number 1252893 ( ), and Novo Nordisk Foundation ( ). PLoS Comput Biol 12(7):Įditor: Scott Markel, Dassault Systemes BIOVIA, UNITED STATESĬopyright: © 2016 Perez-Riverol et al.
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