Assessing the impact of introductory programming workshops on the computational reproducibility of biomedical workflows.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:As biomedical research becomes more data-intensive, computational reproducibility is a growing area of importance. Unfortunately, many biomedical researchers have not received formal computational training and often struggle to produce results that can be reproduced using the same data, code, and methods. Programming workshops can be a tool to teach new computational methods, but it is not always clear whether researchers are able to use their new skills to make their work more computationally reproducible. METHODS:This mixed methods study consisted of in-depth interviews with 14 biomedical researchers before and after participation in an introductory programming workshop. During the interviews, participants described their research workflows and responded to a quantitative ch

SUBMITTER: Deardorff A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7343163 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature