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SoftWipe – a tool and benchmark to assess scientific software quality

Adrian Zapletal, Dimitri Höhler, Carsten Sinz, Alexandros Stamatakis
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.07.330621
Adrian Zapletal
1Computational Molecular Evolution group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
2Institute for Theoretical Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Dimitri Höhler
1Computational Molecular Evolution group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
2Institute for Theoretical Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Carsten Sinz
2Institute for Theoretical Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Alexandros Stamatakis
1Computational Molecular Evolution group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
2Institute for Theoretical Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Abstract

Scientific software from all areas of scientific research is pivotal to obtaining novel insights. Yet the quality of scientific software is rarely assessed, even though it might lead to incorrect scientific results in the worst case. Therefore, we have developed an open source tool and benchmark called SoftWipe, that provides a relative software quality ranking of 51 computational tools from diverse research areas. SoftWipe can be used in the review process of software papers and to inform the scientific software selection process.

Competing Interest Statement

The authors have declared no competing interest.

Footnotes

  • Revised Table 1 after a bug fix in the SoftWipe tool. The rest of the manuscript is unchanged.

  • https://github.com/adrianzap/softwipe

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SoftWipe – a tool and benchmark to assess scientific software quality
Adrian Zapletal, Dimitri Höhler, Carsten Sinz, Alexandros Stamatakis
bioRxiv 2020.10.07.330621; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.07.330621
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SoftWipe – a tool and benchmark to assess scientific software quality
Adrian Zapletal, Dimitri Höhler, Carsten Sinz, Alexandros Stamatakis
bioRxiv 2020.10.07.330621; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.07.330621

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