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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by adrianN on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:58AM (#12650876)
At my institute at least, scientists are required to maintain everything that is necessary to reproduce a result for at least ten years. That includes all the data and the software used to produce the results. It's not an easy job, but it's important.
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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by yakult on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:13AM (#12650924)
If your institute also mandates they make the data/software publicly available, then that's definitely the exception rather than rule. Also must be hideously expensive.

It almost never happens that a paper I read actually comes with usable source code.

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