Dr Francis Gacenga, QCIF’s eResearch Analyst at the University of Southern Queensland, has produced a guide to improving reproducibility using QCIF and ARDC resources.

Having reproducible research can enhance the demonstration of quality and increase the impact of one’s research.
 
Researchers can use QCIF and Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) IT resources with assistance from QCIF eResearch Analysts to efficiently undertake, capture and organise the methods and results of their research, providing a pathway for efficient and transparent publication of reproducible results.
 
The below table is a quick, reproducible research start-up guide that can be used to identify available resources so researchers can publish their results, analysis, methods, data and scripts or code for others to test or reproduce them.
 
The guide provides a possible scenario based on available open source tools, QCIF and ARDC resources accessible at no cost to researchers at QCIF member universities.
 
The list of processes provided is not exhaustive and is meant as illustration of a generic research scenario that can be used by researchers to implement reproducibility.
 
Reproducibility is not easy but the research benefits, cost savings and value it creates are worth the effort.
 
Any queries, please contact Dr Francis Gacenga.

Research Project PhaseKey ProcessesQCIF and ARDC – Tools on NectarSupportTraining
Planning and resourcingAccess for QCIF member researchersNectar* virtual machine (VM)QRIScloud data storageQCIF Hacky Hours Nectar eHelp QCIF eResearch Analysts
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
          
QCIF-supported Software Carpentry sessions,
workshops
and
lessons        
Research initialisationPackagingDocker,
Singularity,
VirtualBox
Process documentation and quality controlVersion ControlGit
Control – file management, editing transferAutomationLinux Shells,
Make
Data analysisData analysisRRStudio,
Python
ComputeComputeQRIScompute
Presentation and VisualisationPresentation and VisualisationRRStudio,
LaTeX,
Make
Publication of reproducible research artefactsResearch disseminationQRIScloud,
RDA,
Zenodo,
CodeMeta,
JOSS
Project Data Storage – ArchivalPreservationQRIScloud,
RDA

Nectar: National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources

References:

http://ropensci.github.io/reproducibility-guide/sections/introduction/
https://genome.sph.umich.edu/w/images/9/92/ReproducibleResearch-TechTalk.pdf