I again completely agree with you Looking back at my reply, I think I should have added a bit of background to clarify my comment My master's degree is in bio

I again completely agree with you Looking back at my reply, I think I should have added a bit of background to clarify my comment My master's degree is in bioinformatics and I worked in the biotech industry until about a year ago. I mainly worked as a consultant for top 20 pharma companies, but also did work on different in-house projects and in academia From my experience in the industry, I find it very unlikely that the software mentioned in the article is structured in a modular way. I've yet to see good software practices outside one or two academic projects. Most pharma companies still use copying and renaming folders as version control. Naturally I'm sceptical of any code coming from the biotech industry On top of that, it's written in MATLAB. I have only ever seen this used by statisticians and university researchers, never by software engineers I'm therefore willing to bet, that when the reviewers open the source code, they'll find unstructured mess of spaghetti code, that has never been refactored, reviewed or tested So yes - I agree in all your points, but I find it unlikely that they're being applied to this particular project