No-one cares about your bioinformatics software

Here’s a tip. When you write an article about your software, the title of which indicates that open-source is important: A universal open-source Electronic Laboratory Notebook but you then: provide almost no details in the abstract do not provide a link to a website or repository from which your “free” software can be obtained choose not to make the article open access and put the installation instructions in a supplementary data file which is also not open access Don’t be surprised when no-one uses your software. Or is the publication more important to you than the product? Filed under: bioinformatics, publications Tagged: lims, open source, software
Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Tags: bioinformatics publications lims open source software Source Type: blogs