Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA.
Department of Computer Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA.
Trends Genet. 2022 Feb;38(2):113-115. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2021.09.010. Epub 2021 Nov 2.
Advocates of transparency in science often point to the benefits of open practices for the scientific process. Here, we focus on a possibly underappreciated effect of standards for transparency: their influence on non-scientific decisions. As a case study, we consider the current state of probabilistic genotyping software in forensics.
透明度倡导者在科学中经常指出开放实践对科学过程的好处。在这里,我们专注于透明度标准的一个可能被低估的影响:它们对非科学决策的影响。作为一个案例研究,我们考虑当前法医概率基因分型软件的状态。