Title
The role of metadata in reproducible computational research
Abstract
Reproducible computational research (RCR) is the keystone of the scientific method for in silico analyses, packaging the transformation of raw data to published results. In addition to its role in research integrity, improving the reproducibility of scientific studies can accelerate evaluation and reuse. This potential and wide support for the FAIR principles have motivated interest in metadata standards supporting reproducibility. Metadata provide context and provenance to raw data and methods and are essential to both discovery and validation. Despite this shared connection with scientific data, few studies have explicitly described how metadata enable reproducible computational research. This review employs a functional content analysis to identify metadata standards that support reproducibility across an analytic stack consisting of input data, tools, notebooks, pipelines, and publications. Our review provides background context, explores gaps, and discovers component trends of embeddedness and methodology weight from which we derive recommendations for future work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.patter.2021.100322
PATTERNS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
FAIR,RCR,containers,metadata,notebooks,ontologies,pipelines,provenance,replicability,reproducibility,reproducible computational research,reproducible research,semantic,software dependencies,workflows
Journal
2
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
2666-3899
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeremy Leipzig100.34
Daniel Nüst283.76
Charles Tapley Hoyt310.75
Karthik Ram4314.71
Jane Greenberg500.34