Ten Simple Rules for the Open Development of Scientific Software

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Prlić, Andreas ^a   Procter, James B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

OPEN DEVELOPMENT; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARES; SIMPLE++;

ADVERTIZING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EDITORIAL; FUNDING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLICATION;

EID: 84872007657     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002802     Document Type: Editorial

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