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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/ex-google-chiefs-venture-aims-to-save-neglected-science-software/
- Published: 2022-07-16T09:00:43-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at www.nature.com