The main advantage of replicable science is that it forces authors to be very explicit about their datasets and all the steps that make up their data analysis p

The main advantage of replicable science is that it forces authors to be very explicit about their datasets and all the steps that make up their data analysis pipeline. A lot of computational analysis (at least in biology) is done by students with little background in CS and with no knowledge of version control or best practices. This leads to lots of results which are nearly impossible to reproduce because so many steps have just not been documented. Being able to show a detailed reproduction, with high quality code that shows all the steps in detail is immensely valuable, and is also a great pedagogic tool for teaching grad students. I hope it takes off and becomes widely used. Fingers crossed! Disclaimer: After Nicolas EuroSciPy talk I offered to help, and joined as a reviewer, so I'm obviously very biased.