Title |
Biogem: an effective tool-based approach for scaling up open source software development in bioinformatics
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Published in |
Bioinformatics, February 2012
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DOI | 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts080 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Raoul J.P. Bonnal, Jan Aerts, George Githinji, Naohisa Goto, Dan MacLean, Chase A. Miller, Hiroyuki Mishima, Massimiliano Pagani, Ricardo Ramirez-Gonzalez, Geert Smant, Francesco Strozzi, Rob Syme, Rutger Vos, Trevor J. Wennblom, Ben J. Woodcroft, Toshiaki Katayama, Pjotr Prins |
Abstract |
Biogem provides a software development environment for the Ruby programming language, which encourages community-based software development for bioinformatics while lowering the barrier to entry and encouraging best practices. Biogem, with its targeted modular and decentralized approach, software generator, tools and tight web integration, is an improved general model for scaling up collaborative open source software development in bioinformatics. |
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United States | 3 | 21% |
United Kingdom | 2 | 14% |
Australia | 2 | 14% |
Japan | 2 | 14% |
Germany | 1 | 7% |
Unknown | 4 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 8 | 57% |
Scientists | 5 | 36% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
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Sweden | 4 | 5% |
United States | 3 | 4% |
Italy | 3 | 4% |
Netherlands | 2 | 2% |
Malaysia | 2 | 2% |
Canada | 2 | 2% |
Belgium | 2 | 2% |
Australia | 1 | 1% |
Japan | 1 | 1% |
Other | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 60 | 74% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 30 | 37% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 16% |
Student > Master | 7 | 9% |
Professor | 6 | 7% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 7% |
Other | 18 | 22% |
Unknown | 1 | 1% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 43 | 53% |
Computer Science | 10 | 12% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 7% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 6% |
Engineering | 3 | 4% |
Other | 10 | 12% |
Unknown | 4 | 5% |