RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 SoftWipe – a tool and benchmark to assess scientific software quality JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 2020.10.07.330621 DO 10.1101/2020.10.07.330621 A1 Adrian Zapletal A1 Dimitri Höhler A1 Carsten Sinz A1 Alexandros Stamatakis YR 2020 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/10/15/2020.10.07.330621.abstract 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.