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Hunting for the best bioscience software tool? Check this database

A data set funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative shows how research software and tools are used across disciplines — and helps developers gain credit for their work.
  1. Matthew Hutson

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Software is a crucial element of modern scientific research. However, all too often, software is neither formally published nor cited in the literature, making it difficult for researchers and developers — and the organizations that fund them — to quantify its impact. A newly released data set aims to fill that gap.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00053-w

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