PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Adrian Zapletal
AU  - Dimitri Höhler
AU  - Carsten Sinz
AU  - Alexandros Stamatakis
TI  - SoftWipe – a tool and benchmark to assess scientific software quality
AID  - 10.1101/2020.10.07.330621
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2020.10.07.330621
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/10/15/2020.10.07.330621.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/10/15/2020.10.07.330621.full
AB  - 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 StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.