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The case for open computer programs

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  • Darrel C. Ince

    (Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK)

  • Leslie Hatton

    (School of Computing and Information Systems, Kingston University, Kingston KT1 2EE, UK)

  • John Graham-Cumming

    (83 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0HW, UK)

Abstract

Scientific reproducibility now very often depends on the computational method being available to duplicate, so here it is argued that all source code should be freely available.

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  • Darrel C. Ince & Leslie Hatton & John Graham-Cumming, 2012. "The case for open computer programs," Nature, Nature, vol. 482(7386), pages 485-488, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:482:y:2012:i:7386:d:10.1038_nature10836
    DOI: 10.1038/nature10836
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