From owner-chemistry-!at!-ccl.net Thu Oct 20 22:04:01 2011 From: "David A Mannock dmannock#ualberta.ca" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Science code manifesto Message-Id: <-45715-111020214759-8387-rFdwrv37CCmUMecNbYd9AQ[A]server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: David A Mannock Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0022158df36fb4fff904afc54294 Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:47:49 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: David A Mannock [dmannock|ualberta.ca] --0022158df36fb4fff904afc54294 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 The computer is your equipment, whereas the code is the analytic tool used to calculate the result and is thus part of the experiment.. On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mihaly Mezei Mihaly.Mezei ~~ mssm.edu < owner-chemistry,ccl.net> wrote: > > Sent to CCL by: Mihaly Mezei [Mihaly.Mezei(-)mssm.edu] > > Hi! A couple of people have suggested that explaining and providing > > details of software code is like providing details of the design of a > piece of > > equipment used to perform a measurement. I don't think this is > > accurate.Experimentalists have to justify and validate the > > experimental approach, not the design of the equipment. > > So, why do we have to justify the design of our equipment (i.e., the source > code)? > > Or, conversely, why don't they have to to justify the design of their > equipment? > > Mihaly Mezei > > Department of Structural and Chemical Biology, Mount Sinai School of > Medicine > Voice: (212) 659-5475 Fax: (212) 849-2456 > WWW (MSSM home): > http://www.mountsinai.org/Find%20A%20Faculty/profile.do?id=0000072500001497192632 > WWW (Lab home - software, publications): http://inka.mssm.edu/~mezei > WWW (Department): http://atlas.physbio.mssm.edu> > > --0022158df36fb4fff904afc54294 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The computer is your equipment, whereas the code is the analytic tool used = to calculate the result and is thus part of the experiment..

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mihaly Mezei Mihaly.M= ezei ~~ mssm.edu <owner-chemistry,ccl.net> wrote:

Sent to CCL by: Mihaly Mezei [Mihaly.Mezei(-)mssm.edu]
> Hi! A couple of people have suggested that explaining and providing > details of software code is like providing details of the design of = =A0a piece of
> equipment used to perform a measurement. I don't think this is
> accurate.Experimentalists have to justify and validate the
> experimental approach, not the design of the equipment.

So, why do we have to justify the design of our equipment (i.e., the source= code)?

Or, conversely, why don't they have to to justify the design of their e= quipment?

Mihaly Mezei

Department of Structural and Chemical Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medici= ne
Voice: =A0(212)= 659-5475 =A0 Fax: (212) 849-2456
WWW (MSSM home): http://www.mountsin= ai.org/Find%20A%20Faculty/profile.do?id=3D0000072500001497192632
WWW (Lab home - software, publications): http://inka.mssm.edu/~mezei
WWW (Department): http://atlas.physbio.mssm.edu



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