1. Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Working with research software http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1591046 2 nd - 4 th November 2015, Artefact Evaluation for Publication Neil Chue Hong (@npch), Software Sustainability Institute ORCID: 0000-0002-8876-7606 | N.ChueHong@software.ac.uk Slides licensed under CC-BY where indicated: Supported by Project funding from

2. Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk The Software Sustainability Institute A national facility for cultivating better, more sustainable, research software to enable world- class research Software reaches boundaries in its development cycle that prevent improvement, growth and adoption Providing the expertise and services needed to negotiate to the next stage Developing the policy and tools to support the community developing and using research software Supported by EPSRC Grant EP/H043160/1 + EPSRC/ESRC/BBSRC grant EP/N006410/1 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591046

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5. Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Positive selection in large genomic datasets Selection at pleiotropic loci underlies disease co-occurrence in human populations. Navarro, Haley, Karosas et al. Submitted to Nature Genetics 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591046

6. Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Hapbin: fast haplotype based scans hapbin: An Efficient Program for Performing Haplotype-Based Scans for Positive Selection in Large Genomic Datasets. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv172 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591046

7. Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Journal of Open Research Software http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591046

8. Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk What is “good” software, and how can we measure it? 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591046

9. Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Nutritional Labelling Designed to be easy to read and understand  Small set of categories  “Traffic light” indicators A framework that can be evaluated differently due to community norms  Healthy heart diet vs cake 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591046

10. Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Software Accreditation Framework Challenges Many measures are subjective Many metrics are costly to measure Need to encourage self- assessment Purpose Enabling improvement, versus Enabling comparison Categories Availability Usability Transferability …? Benchmark against existing software 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591046

11. Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Software Management Plans A means of ensuring software is accessible and reusable throughout project and beyond A tool that complements (/implements) accreditation framework Prototype based on DMPOnline 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591046