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A gold-standard dataset of software mentions in research publications.
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Software with number in name #624

Open jameshowison opened 5 years ago

jameshowison commented 5 years ago

I'm noticing a few like SARF2 or ggplot2 where there is a number in the name. My thinking here is that the most consistent way to treat those is that the numbers are part of the software name and not a version number.

What do you @caifand and @kermitt2 think? Hey, there's a number in kermitt2 :)

caifand commented 5 years ago

Yes. I did not clean those. This is more common in bioinformatic tools (which is an important category of research software to us, I believe?). It's like blast/blastn, or clustalw/clustalx , or bowtie/bowtie 2. (Though the first two pairs do not contain numbers.) There are different flavors of software derived from the same lineage. Not a piece of software that has been updated in a linear manner over time.