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SustainEpisode 236: Eva Maxfield Brown & Boris Veytsman on OSS Dependencies in the SciencesGuests
Eva Maxfield Brown | Boris Veytsman
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer engages with guests Eva Maxfield Brown and Boris Veytsman to explore their co-authored paper, "Biomedical Open Source Software: Crucial Packages and Hidden Heroes." The paper focuses on identifying crucial but often overlooked software dependencies in biomedical research. The discussions delve into how the study used data from two million papers to map these dependencies, revealing both well-supported and undermaintained software components vital to scientific research. There’s a conversation on th...
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