[GenABEL-dev] Interesting article about open source and science

[Yury Aulchenko]

Thank you for the reference!

Interesting reading indeed (both), and quite along the lines I was thinking about. In "manifesto", there is a good point about

"Credit: Software contributions must be included in systems of scientific assessment, credit, and recognition"

This is indeed something which would be good to change as in the current system a software author can get a credit only if she/he has published a paper on it, BUT 1) some times software does not lead to publication, especially it is hard to publish a paper if you "just implemented" a known - though useless without implementation - method 2) it is too frequent software is mentioned without referencing proper paper 3) "publish first" approach leads to delays with software release / availability to the public, ... so on and so forth

To me, such a change can only happen if funding organizations take the topic of methods and software development more seriously. 

best wishes,
Yurii
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Yurii Aulchenko, PhD, Dr. Habil.
Independent researcher and consultant
yurii [dot] aulchenko [at] gmail [dot] com

On Nov 6, 2011, at 10:28 PM, L.C. Karssen wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> About a week ago I came across this post and thought it was an
> interesting read for people on this list. It is a short article on the
> need for software openness in science and links to the Science Code
> Manifesto by Nick Barnes, which is an interesting read by itself.
> 
> http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Open-Source-Open-Science-Open-Source-Science-1365622.html
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Lennart.
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