Research software has become essential in science, including in the life sciences [1, 2].
Most of this software is designed and built by research groups funded by short-term research …

The rise of high-throughput technologies in molecular biology has led to a massive amount
of publicly available data. While computational method development has been a …

In order to attempt to understand the complexity inherent in nature, mathematical, statistical
and computational techniques are increasingly being employed in the life sciences. In …

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The aim of the presented work was contributing to making scientific computing more
accessible, reliable, and thus more efficient for researchers, primarily computational …

Designers have a saying that “the joy of an early release lasts but a short time. The
bitterness of an unusable system lasts for years.” It is indeed disappointing to discover that …

“Scientific community” refers to a group of people collaborating together on scientific-
research-related activities who also share common goals, interests, and values. Such …

In this issue, we provide the next installment of our annual feature 'Current Progress in
Bioinformatics'. Each year, we invite leaders in bioinformatics to summarize the progress …

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary scientific field of life sciences. Bioinformatics research
and application include the analysis of molecular sequence and genomics data; genome …

How could we evaluate research and researchers? Reproducibility underpins the scientific
method: at least in principle if not practice. The willing exchange of results and the …