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Open code for open science?

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Open source software is often seen as a path to reproducibility in computational science. In practice there are many obstacles, even when the code is freely available, but open source policies should at least lead to better quality code.

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Easterbrook, S. Open code for open science?. Nature Geosci 7, 779–781 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2283

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