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ArticleScientific reports2021

The SoftWipe tool and benchmark for assessing coding standards adherence of scientific software.

Adrian Zapletal, Dimitri Höhler, Carsten Sinz, Alexandros Stamatakis

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Adrian Zapletal *Computational Molecular Evolution group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
Dimitri Höhler *Computational Molecular Evolution group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
Carsten SinzInstitute for Theoretical Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Alexandros StamatakisComputational Molecular Evolution group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany. alexandros.stamatakis@h-its.org.

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Abstract

Scientific software from all areas of scientific research is pivotal to obtaining novel insights. Yet the coding standards adherence of scientific software is rarely assessed, even though it might lead to incorrect scientific results in the worst case. Therefore, we have developed an open source tool and benchmark called SoftWipe, that provides a relative software coding standards adherence ranking of 48 computational tools from diverse research areas. SoftWipe can be used in the review process of software papers and to inform the scientific software selection process.

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