Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A Snakemake pipeline producing identical FASTQ-to-VCF outputs across runs on the same container image.
- Is an instance
An R Markdown notebook re-knitting to bit-identical figures after a `renv::restore()`.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Replication of a wet-lab assay (not computational).
- Not an instance
A new field study (different scope of reproducibility).
Editorial commentary
Computational reproducibility is a necessary condition for higher-order reproducibility claims. It can fail for mundane reasons (missing data file, undocumented random seed, OS-dependent floating-point, removed library version) and is the principal target of containerisation, workflow languages, and computational-environment capture.
References
- Stodden, Seiler, Ma, 'An empirical analysis of journal policy effectiveness for computational reproducibility' (PNAS, 2018).
Also known as
execution reproducibility · bitwise/numeric reproducibility
Machine-readable encodings
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