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Open Science meet Open Source

By Deepak Singh | Published: August 19, 2009

Gavin Baker at Open Access News, channeling Vivien Marx at Bioinform, writes about plans by PLoS to launch a software section for PLoS Computational Biology and PLoS One, which will include a function for authors to deposit software.  The same article also talks about efforts to release large data sets (in context).

These are laudable moves.  Hopefully those planning out the details will look at various, existing code repositories and data repositories and make sure that they don't work before reinventing the wheel.

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  1. By open src, science, data | biopunk.hu on September 26, 2009 at 08:22

    [...] bbgm blogon bukkantam rá a hírre, hogy a PLoS Computational Biology és a PLoS ONE a cikkek mellett szoftverek publikálását is [...]

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