[PRE REVIEW]: pyomeca: An Open-Source Framework for Biomechanical Analysis

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Submitting author: @romainmartinez (Romain Martinez) Repository: https://github.com/pyomeca/pyomeca/ Version: 2020.0.1 Editor: @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman Reviewers: @BKillen05, @mitkof6 Managing EiC: Lorena A Barba

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Software report (experimental):

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Statistical information for the repository '2323' was gathered on 2020/06/11.
The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

Author                     Commits    Insertions      Deletions    % of changes
Pariterre                       73         27028          15724           31.81
Romain Martinez                136         38155          48521           64.49
pariterre                       19           863            211            0.80
romain                          29          3383            517            2.90

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intact in the current revision:

Author                     Rows      Stability          Age       % in comments
Pariterre                    63            0.2          5.7               14.29
romain                     4444          131.4          1.2                2.79

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:point_right: Check article proof :page_facing_up: :point_left:

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Reference check summary:

OK DOIs

- None

MISSING DOIs

- https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.148 may be missing for title: xarray: N-D labeled Arrays and Datasets in Python
- https://doi.org/10.25080/majora-92bf1922-00a may be missing for title: Data structures for statistical computing in python
- https://doi.org/10.1109/mcse.2007.55 may be missing for title: Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
- https://doi.org/10.1109/mcse.2011.37 may be missing for title: The NumPy Array: A Structure for Efficient Numerical Computation
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.11.007 may be missing for title: biomechZoo: An open-source toolbox for the processing, analysis, and visualization of biomechanical movement data
- https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00927 may be missing for title: CusToM: a Matlab toolbox for musculoskeletal simulation
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-019-00633-9 may be missing for title: RMoCap: an R language package for processing and kinematic analyzing motion capture data

INVALID DOIs

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[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@whedon assign @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman as editor

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OK, the editor is @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@modenaxe @moorepants @ekjchadwick @Juanfrandepatech would you be interested in reviewing this submission for JOSS?

The review is on GitHub and focuses on the software and this short paper.

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@whedon assign @BKillen05 as reviewer

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OK, @BKillen05 is now a reviewer

[modenaxe]

Hi @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman, I won't be able to help with this submission, I am on annual leave. Dimitar could be a potential good alternative reviewer.

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@mitkof6 would you be able to help with this review?

[mitkof6]

Hi @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman I can review this. When is the deadline?

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@mitkof6 we tend to aim for 2 weeks but we can be flexible

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@whedon add @mitkof6 as reviewer

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OK, @mitkof6 is now a reviewer

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@whedon start review

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OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/2431.