[SciPy-user] [OT] advice about publishing a scientific software

[Chris Lee]

On Jul 16, 2007, at 3:04 PM, massimo sandal wrote:

> I am currently developing a (Python-and-Scipy based, of course!)  
> data analysis software (more precisely, a single molecule force  
> spectroscopy data analysis sw). It has been thought to be not the  
> usual quick-and-dirty in house script, but to be an actual  
> application that can be used in general by different labs. In fact,  
> it actually features an easy and working (even if slightly  
> unpolished) plugin API, and most functionality is implemented by  
> mean of independent plugin.

I would think that you could write a paper to the appropriate methods  
journal and its review would be independent of the release to open  
source as long as you clearly stated in the paper that the authors  
were the sole developers up to the x.yz release.

Which also answers the question about which Journal. Every field has  
either specialist methods/instrumentation journals or journals with  
sections devoted to that.  I would aim for one of those.

Cheers
Chris


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