Sharing Code

• 2022-10-04

Sharing software is vital to allow multiple people to collaborate on the same codebase. For open-source software, sharing code also gives the public access to the code for reviewing, testing, and contributing. When papers and software are both published, it increases the reproducibility and reusability of scientific work. Sharing code in a public online repository also allows others to cite the software and credit its authors.

MolSSI recommends using git for version control, and GitHub as a hosting service, though there are other options.

• Recommended Hosting Service: GitHub
• Other hosting Services: GitLab, BitBucket

Tutorials for sharing code with GitHub

• Introduction of using GitHub from MolSSI’s Best Practices Workshop
• Code collaboration using GitHub from MolSSI’s Best Practices Workshop
• GitHub Docs