The Challenge of Reproducibility in Bioinformatics

Most bioinformaticians are trained as biologists and not as computer scientists or software engineers. So a lot of good practice from industry software engineering is not known to people working in bioinformatics. And also the incentive structure is not great for adhering to those best practices because the emphasis is on publication. There's kind of a whole new set of strong norms around reproducibility of code that needs to come into force that haven't yet.