Recent article on code sharing in publications:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6078/159
I agree with the article that scripts/software should be open sourced. But I also wonder how the journals will determine if a script is acceptable for publication. Are bioinformaticians going to have to spend extra time making scripts into a pipeline? Are all analytical scripts going to have to be curated and packaged? Do we run in to the danger of turning the biology source code landscape into a mess of spaghetti code by mandating everyone submitting their own version of even simple operations?
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Damian Kao
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The publication that you link to suggests mandating source code release for published data analyses - and that's a good thing.
I do think that bioinformaticians should already be spending substantial amount of effort on properly testing, documenting and packaging their code, this makes it more reliable.
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