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Ten Simple Rules for Making Research Software More Robust. Manuscript is published at PLoS Computational Biology. Feedback is welcome!
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005412
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Remove mention of inter-institutional collaboration? #34

Closed gvwilson closed 7 years ago

gvwilson commented 7 years ago

Reviewer 2 questions our mention of this.

morgantaschuk commented 7 years ago

In describing successful software research projects the authors state “...who have adopted strong software engineering approaches, have high standards of reproducibility, use good testing practices, and foster inter-institutional collaborations that grow into strong user bases”.. All of these points can be clearly tied to their rules with the exception of the final statement about inter-institutional collaborations. While such collaborations are desirable, particularly to establish project continuity and longevity, they are not strictly necessary for robustness and this is not further referenced in the manuscript.

That's true. I've changed the line to "and foster strong user bases through constantly evolving, clearly documented, useful, and useable software."