Background: The development of scientific software applications is far from trivial, due to the
constant increase in the necessary complexity of these applications, their increasing size …

Abstract HYpothesis testing using PHYlogenies (HyPhy) is a scriptable, open-source
package for fitting a broad range of evolutionary models to multiple sequence alignments …

Quantum computing (QC) introduces a novel mode of computation with the possibility of
greater computational power that remains to be exploited-presenting exciting opportunities …

Abstract The Open Science agenda holds that science advances faster when we can build
on existing results. Therefore, research data must be FAIR (Findable, Accessible …

Research software has become a central asset in academic research. It optimizes existing
and enables new research methods, implements and embeds research knowledge, and …

In empirical software engineering, benchmarks can be used for comparing different
methods, techniques and tools. However, the recent ACM SIGSOFT Empirical Standards for …

Background Shotgun metagenomes contain a sample of all the genomic material in an
environment, allowing for the characterization of a microbial community. In order to …

Electronic structure theory (especially quantum chemistry) has thrived and has become
increasingly relevant to a broad spectrum of scientific endeavors as the sophistication of …

Open-science initiatives have gained substantial momentum in computer science, and
particularly in software-engineering research. A critical aspect of open-science is the public …

Reports on the need to make make software open source. It should be both archived for
reproducibility and actively maintained for reusability. In computational and computer …