Rampant software errors may undermine scientific results.

ABSTRACT: The opportunities for both subtle and profound errors in software and data management are boundless, yet they remain surprisingly underappreciated. Here I estimate that any reported scientific result could very well be wrong if data have passed through a computer, and that these errors may remain largely undetected.  It is therefore necessary to greatly expand our efforts to validate scientific software and computed results.

SUBMITTER: Soergel DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4629271 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature