About the Authors

Greg Wilson

gvwilson@software-carpentry.org

Affiliation Mozilla Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

D. A. Aruliah

Affiliation University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

C. Titus Brown

Affiliation Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Neil P. Chue Hong

Affiliation Software Sustainability Institute, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Matt Davis

Affiliation Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Richard T. Guy

Current address: Microsoft, Inc., Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Steven H. D. Haddock

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Kathryn D. Huff

Affiliation University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Ian M. Mitchell

Affiliation University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mark D. Plumbley

Affiliation Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Ben Waugh

Affiliation University College London, London, United Kingdom

Ethan P. White

Affiliation Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Paul Wilson

Affiliation University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The lead author (GVW) is involved in a pilot study of code review in scientific computing with PLOS Computational Biology.

Author Contributions

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