PLoS Mulls Hosting Software amid Growing Crossover between Informatics and Publishing | BioInform | Informatics | GenomeWeb

"[T]he Public Library of Science is planning to launch a software section for its PLoS Computational Biology and PLoS One journals that may include a function for authors to deposit their software when they submit their papers for publication...."We'd like to have software deposited with the article," said [Phil Bourne, founding editor-in-chief of PLoS Computational Biology], but noted that the team is ironing out details, such as whether to create a repository like SourceForge to host software that is not yet live at the time of article submission....[Also at the BioLink special interest group meeting at ISMB] other publishers discussed ways that journals could improve the dissemination of large data sets that support a paper's findings. Publishers often treat "data as an afterthought" and "rarely" put it in a form that is readily re-usable, BioMedCentral's publisher Matthew Cockerill said, adding that BMC is working on techniques to put data in context."