Quality Control and Traceability

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Nature News recently reported work by Gurt Vriend at other to clean up records in the widely-used Protein Data Bank (PDB). This is great news, but what's missing is a way to track forward from entries to see what already-published papers have relied on data that's now known to be incorrect. One of the many goals of this course is to give scientists the understanding they need to tackle this problem.