Barely sufficient practices in scientific computing

Graham Lee; Sebastian Bacon; Ian Bush; Laura Fortunato; David Gavaghan; Thibault Lestang; Caroline Morton; Martin Robinson; Philippe Rocca-Serra; Susanna-Assunta Sansone; Helena Webb

doi:10.1016/j.patter.2021.100206

Barely sufficient practices in scientific computing

Patterns (N Y). 2021 Feb 12;2(2):100206. doi: 10.1016/j.patter.2021.100206.

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¹ Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵ Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA.

Abstract

The importance of software to modern research is well understood, as is the way in which software developed for research can support or undermine important research principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR). We propose a minimal subset of common software engineering principles that enable FAIRness of computational research and can be used as a baseline for software engineering in any research discipline.

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