Combining real-time discussion between researchers with collaborative writing and data analysis, and the ability to publish very granular findings, could result in a major leap in the scale of collaboration and velocity of research.…
TL;DR: An open API for science helps researchers discover great software. Install the Scholar Ninja extension and you’ll get recommendations (based on software citations) on-the-fly while browsing GitHub. A while back I wrote about an open distributed search engine for science, Scholar Ninja, and about how great it…
Introduction The topic “GitHub for Science” has been explored quite a few times before (1, 2, 3, 4) and with good reason: it is quite exciting to envision what breakthroughs in scientific collaboration could come from GitHub backed explorations, with substantial capital to invest and a formidable team to execute.…