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A blog from the Raj Lab for systems biology
RajLab Monday, January 6, 2025 Documenting computational analyses by provenance vs. function tl;dr: I think it’s time we rethink a lot of how we document computational work. Prompted by AI but also just general increasing complexity of software, we need to move from documenting how something came to be towards documenting what that something is. This more practical form of documentation will allow us to focus our efforts on what matters scientifically. It has long been held as sacrosanct that proper scientific reporting requires documenting the provenance of any particular output. To tra
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