Build your own Virtual Research Environment for Reproducible Research

Georgios Kaklamanos

17.07.2017

Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Topics

• Reproducible Research

• Data & Project Organization

• Automation

• Publication & Sharing

Reproducible Research

Hypothetical Scenarios

Submitted a Paper

• Review process takes months
• Requests to modify parameters / figures
• Need to run / modify code from 6 months ago

Found Interesting Paper

• No Source Code
• No data

Received a zip archive from colleague

• Contains data and code

• Original author has left

• Code doesn't compile

• No Documentation

• Program is critical for the lab

• These are global reproducibility problems

Crisis of Reproducibility

• 70% of researchers
  • Failed to reproduce other scientists experiments

• 50% of researchers
  • Failed to reproduce their own experiments

Across the fields

• Phycology, 2006 study [2}

Received a zip archive from colleague

• Contains data and code

• Original author has left

• Code doesn't compile

• No Documentation

Received a zip archive from colleague

• Contains data and code

• Original author has left

• Code doesn't compile

• No Documentation

Received a zip archive from colleague

• Contains data and code

• Original author has left

• Code doesn't compile

• No Documentation

Received a zip archive from colleague

• Contains data and code

• Original author has left

• Code doesn't compile

• No Documentation