Stop Hiding Your Code | EveryONE: The PLOS ONE blog

"We, @PLOS, @PLOSONE and the open source community, will discuss why and how to #ShareYourCode in a tweet chat on 25 April, 10-11am Pacific Daylight Time/6-7pm British Summer Time. Join us!

A cornerstone of science is reproducibility, the notion that any colleague anywhere should be able to read your paper, repeat experiments or analysis, and come to the same conclusions as you did. Difficulties reproducing results are, in the vast majority of cases, not due to the authors having made mistakes or, even worse, forged data. Rather, the lack of detail about methods, data, and code in a paper is often the greatest impediment. Code written to simulate a system, analyse data, or generate figures forms a central part of the methods, at least in physics. It would be common sense to make it as easy as possible for colleagues to read and run the code to pre-empt and mitigate reproducibility and repeatability issues that could arise from any lack of detail...."