We have already made a case about reproducibility in this training. In this lesson we will focus on one of the tools to enable and empower you to perform analysis reproducibly.
We have already made a case about reproducibility in this training. In this introduction, we will focus on one of the tools to enable and empower you to perform analysis reproducibly.
When you do lab work, you use lab notebooks to organize your methods, results, and conclusions for future retrieval and reproduction. The information in these notebooks is converted into a more concise experimental description for the Methods section when publishing the results. Computational analysis requires the same diligence! The equivalent of a lab notebook for computational work is a detailed log of the workflow used, the tools at each step, the parameters for those tools and last, but not least, the versions of the tools.
When you do lab work, you use lab notebooks to organize your methods, results, and conclusions for future retrieval and reproduction. The information in these notebooks is converted into a more concise experimental description for the Methods section when publishing the results. Computational analysis requires the same diligence! The equivalent of a lab notebook for computational work is a detailed log of the workflow used, the tools at each step, the parameters for those tools and last, but not least, the versions of the tools.