On best practices in the development of bioinformatics software

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory for Proteomics and Protein Engineering, Carlos Chagas Institute - Fiocruz Curitiba, Brazil ; Hexabio Bioinformatics Curitiba, Brazil.
² Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program, COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³ Hexabio Bioinformatics Curitiba, Brazil.
⁴ Proteomics Services, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute Cambridge, UK.
⁵ Laboratory for Proteomics and Protein Engineering, Carlos Chagas Institute - Fiocruz Curitiba, Brazil.

Felipe da Veiga Leprevost et al. Front Genet. 2014.

. 2014 Jul 2:5:199.

doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00199. eCollection 2014.

¹ Laboratory for Proteomics and Protein Engineering, Carlos Chagas Institute - Fiocruz Curitiba, Brazil ; Hexabio Bioinformatics Curitiba, Brazil.
² Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program, COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³ Hexabio Bioinformatics Curitiba, Brazil.
⁴ Proteomics Services, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute Cambridge, UK.
⁵ Laboratory for Proteomics and Protein Engineering, Carlos Chagas Institute - Fiocruz Curitiba, Brazil.

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Keywords: best practices; bioinformatics; repository; source control; test.

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