AI Article Synopsis
- Scientific software is crucial for gaining new insights in research, but its coding standards are often not evaluated.
- Poor coding practices can result in incorrect scientific outcomes, highlighting the importance of assessment.
- To address this, SoftWipe is an open-source tool that ranks 48 computational tools based on coding standards adherence, aiding in software review and selection.
Article Abstract
Scientific software from all areas of scientific research is pivotal to obtaining novel insights. Yet the coding standards adherence of scientific software is rarely assessed, even though it might lead to incorrect scientific results in the worst case. Therefore, we have developed an open source tool and benchmark called SoftWipe, that provides a relative software coding standards adherence ranking of 48 computational tools from diverse research areas. SoftWipe can be used in the review process of software papers and to inform the scientific software selection process.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8113446 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89495-8 | DOI Listing |
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