Git can facilitate greater reproducibility and increased transparency in science.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reproducibility is the hallmark of good science. Maintaining a high degree of transparency in scientific reporting is essential not just for gaining trust and credibility within the scientific community but also for facilitating the development of new ideas. Sharing data and computer code associated with publications is becoming increasingly common, motivated partly in response to data deposition requirements from journals and mandates from funders. Despite this increase in transparency, it is still difficult to reproduce or build upon the findings of most scientific publications without access to a more complete workflow.

Findings

Version control systems (VCS), which have long been used to maintain code repositories in the software industry, are now finding new a

SUBMITTER: Ram K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3639880 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature