Ten Simple Rules for Developing Usable Software in Computational Biology

Markus List¹, Peter Ebert^{1

2}, Felipe Albrecht^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany.
² Graduate School of Computer Science, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Editorial

Markus List et al. PLoS Comput Biol. 2017.

. 2017 Jan 5;13(1):e1005265.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005265. eCollection 2017 Jan.

Markus List¹, Peter Ebert^{1

2}, Felipe Albrecht^{1

2}

¹ Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany.
² Graduate School of Computer Science, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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