Ex-Google chief’s venture aims to save neglected science software

Photo caption: Scientific research increasingly relies on custom-built software. Photo credit: Getty. Article by David Matthews. Nature – July 13, 2022.

Schmidt Futures is creating the US$40-million Virtual Institute of Scientific Software to fund the maintenance of researcher-written code.

See whether this sounds familiar: you build a piece of software to solve a research question. But when you move on to the next project, there’s no one to maintain it. As it ages, it becomes obsolete, and the next academic to tackle a similar problem finds themselves having to reinvent the wheel. […]

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