Editorial
Changing computational research. The challenges ahead
1 Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot, Harwell Oxford, UK
2 Public Library of Science, San Francisco, USA
3 Leuven University, Heverlee, Belgium
4 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
5 University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
6 Oakwood Computing Associates Ltd, Surrey, UK
7 LICEF Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
8 University of California, Berkeley, USA
9 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
10 CSIRO, Sydney, Australia
11 National Center for Biomedical Ontology, Stanford, USA
12 Adler Planetarium, Chicago, USA
13 INRIA, Saclay, France
14 Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2012, 7:2 doi:10.1186/1751-0473-7-2
Published: 28 May 2012First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
The past year has been an interesting one for those interested in reproducible research. There have been great examples of replicability [1,2] in research communication, and examples of horrifying failure of reproducibility (as described in [3]) with serious questions being raised on the ability of our current system of research communication to guarantee, or even encourage, that published research be reproducible or replicable.
