Rampant software errors may undermine scientific results

The opportunities for both subtle and profound errors in software and data management are boundless, yet they remain surprisingly underappreciated. Here I estimate that any reported scientific result could very well be wrong if data have passed through a computer, and that these errors may remain la...

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Autor principal: Soergel, David A. W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2015
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Opinion Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4629271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26539290
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.5930.2
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description The opportunities for both subtle and profound errors in software and data management are boundless, yet they remain surprisingly underappreciated. Here I estimate that any reported scientific result could very well be wrong if data have passed through a computer, and that these errors may remain largely undetected.  It is therefore necessary to greatly expand our efforts to validate scientific software and computed results.
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spelling pubmed-46292712015-11-03 Rampant software errors may undermine scientific results Soergel, David A. W. F1000Res Opinion Article The opportunities for both subtle and profound errors in software and data management are boundless, yet they remain surprisingly underappreciated. Here I estimate that any reported scientific result could very well be wrong if data have passed through a computer, and that these errors may remain largely undetected.  It is therefore necessary to greatly expand our efforts to validate scientific software and computed results. F1000Research 2015-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4629271/ /pubmed/26539290 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.5930.2 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Soergel DAW http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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