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

Barely sufficient practices in scientific computing

Graham Lee  1 , Sebastian Bacon  2 , Ian Bush  3 , Laura Fortunato  4   5 , David Gavaghan  1 , Thibault Lestang  1 , Caroline Morton  2 , Martin Robinson  1 , Philippe Rocca-Serra  3 , Susanna-Assunta Sansone  3 , Helena Webb  1
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Barely sufficient practices in scientific computing

Graham Lee et al. Patterns (N Y). .

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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