5.8. How Remote Services Can Enhance Reproducibility

Tip

Checkout git-and-its-remotes and ci-cd-workflows to learn about the benefits of remote services like GitHub and GitLab.

• Improved Accessibility:

  • Remote services enhance accessibility, allowing researchers to easily share their work with the scientific community.

• Collaboration Tools:

  • Features like Issues and Merge/Pull Requests significantly improve documentation.

  • These tools are effective for formalizing features and tracking their implementation.

• Automation:

  • Enables automated processes triggered by various events within a Repository or Project.

  • Continuous Deployment (CD) is crucial for reproducibility in scientific analyses.

• Automation Scripts:

  • Can declare the environment in which the analysis runs and the corresponding data versions used.

  • Provide comprehensive documentation of analyses, including data, scripts, dependencies, and execution environments.