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Troubling Trends in Scientific Software Use

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This recent paper is with a PDRA in Gavaghan’s group (McInerney) and collaborators at Microsoft Research. It reflects our growing interest in development of scientific software and in the repeatability and reproducibility of computational science research. This interest is reflected in the EPSRC- and Microsoft-funded (£4.5M) 2020 Science Programme on which Gavaghan is principal investigator and Emmott is a co-investigator. This paper highlights the often rather non-scientific approaches used to select scientific software in computational ecology, and makes some strong recommendations concerning the implications for peer review and training (particularly at doctoral level) in the computational science domain.