Computational Molecular Evolution group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
Institute for Theoretical Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Sci Rep. 2021 May 11;11(1):10015. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-89495-8.
Scientific software from all areas of scientific research is pivotal to obtaining novel insights. Yet the coding standards adherence 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 coding standards adherence ranking of 48 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.
科学研究各个领域的科学软件对于获得新的见解至关重要。然而,即使在最坏的情况下,科学软件的编码标准遵守情况也很少得到评估。因此,我们开发了一个名为 SoftWipe 的开源工具和基准,它为来自不同研究领域的 48 个计算工具提供了相对的软件编码标准遵守排名。SoftWipe 可用于软件论文的审查过程,并为科学软件选择过程提供信息。