Guidance framework to apply best practices in ecological data analysis: lessons learned from building Galaxy-Ecology.

ABSTRACT: Numerous conceptual frameworks exist for best practices in research data and analysis (e.g., Open Science and FAIR principles). In practice, there is a need for further progress to improve transparency, reproducibility, and confidence in ecology. Here, we propose a practical and operational framework for researchers and experts in ecology to achieve best practices for building analytical procedures from individual research projects to production-level analytical pipelines. We introduce the concept of atomization to identify analytical steps that support generalization by allowing us to go beyond single analyses. The term atomization is employed to convey the idea of single analytical steps as "atoms" composing an analytical procedure. When generalized, "atoms" can be used in more than a si

SUBMITTER: Royaux C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11816794 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature