What is CodeOcean?
CodeOcean is a cloud-based platform designed to enable computational reproducibility and collaboration in science. It allows researchers to share, validate, and archive the code associated with their scientific publications in one centralized location.
Some key features of CodeOcean include:
- Code capsules - Code, data, and computing environments are bundled together into portable and reproducible capsules for sharing.
- Version control - Capsules are linked to repositories like GitHub or Bitbucket for version tracking.
- Computational reproducibility - Other researchers can easily reproduce results by re-running the code in CodeOcean.
- Collaboration - Researchers can work together on code in real-time with integrated IDEs and virtual machines.
- Citations - Code capsules are assigned DOIs so they can be formally cited as research outputs.
- Review process - Code can be peer reviewed as part of the publication process to validate reproducibility.
Overall, CodeOcean aims to promote transparency, reproducibility, collaboration and proper academic credit for code. This supports integrity and progress in computational research across many disciplines.