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Posted by Cheng Soon Ong on August 14, 2013
How good is the software associated with scientific papers? There seems to be a general impression that the quality of scientific software is not that great. How do we check for software quality? Well, by doing code review.
In an interesting experiment between the Mozilla Science Lab and PLoS Computational Biology, a selected number of papers with snippets of code from the latter will be reviewed by engineers from the former.
For more details see the blog post by Kaitlin Thaney.
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