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• April 2015 additions to the ASCL

  Twenty-one codes were added to the ASCL in April 2015:

  abcpmc: Approximate Bayesian Computation for Population Monte-Carlo code
  BGLS: A Bayesian formalism for the generalised Lomb-Scargle periodogram
  chimenea: Multi-epoch radio-synthesis data imaging
  CosmoTransitions: Cosmological Phase Transitions
  D3PO: Denoising, Deconvolving, and Decomposing Photon Observations

  DPI: Symplectic mapping for binary star systems for the Mercury software package
  drive-casa: Python interface for CASA scripting
  EsoRex: ESO Recipe Execution Tool
  HOTPANTS: High Order Transform of PSF ANd Template Subtraction
  IGMtransmission: Transmission curve computation

  JWFront: Wavefronts and Light Cones for Kerr Spacetimes
  kozai: Hierarchical triple systems evolution
  LineProf: Line Profile Indicators
  MCSpearman: Monte Carlo error analyses of Spearman's rank test
  MRrelation: Posterior predictive mass distribution

  samiDB: A Prototype Data Archive for Big Science Exploration
  Self-lensing binary code with Markov chain
  SPA: Solar Position Algorithm
  SOAP 2.0: Spot Oscillation And Planet 2.0
  UPMASK: Unsupervised Photometric Membership Assignment in Stellar Clusters

  WebbPSF: James Webb Space Telescope PSF Simulation Tool

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on May 1, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• Closure of Google Code and impact on ASCL records

  Google has announced the closure of its Google Code service. Google suggests several courses of action and states, "We ... offer stand-alone tools for migrating to GitHub and Bitbucket, and SourceForge offers a Google Code project importer service.”

  Please take steps to save your software! If you migrate your code to another site, I would appreciate knowing the new URL. If you are no longer working on your software and do not want to migrate it to another project hosting site, please allow the ASCL to store an archive file (tarball/zip/etc.) of it with the ASCL entry so it remains available to support your written research record, or select another option to preserve your code. If you would like to have the ASCL host an archive file, please contact me; thank you.

  This entry was posted in best practices, codes, news on March 16, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• Even more data play: Social media and the rest

  The pie below shows what percentage of codes in the ASCL have social coding links in their entries, and the Starlink caveat still holds: all the Starlink codes are in one Github repo, so that repo is represented only once in the pie below. These numbers are somewhat low, as some codes offer a webpage/site to which the ASCL links, with that webpage then directing people to a repostitory. If someone does a better analysis, please send it over; I'd love to include it!

  

  As before, the data are here.

  Related posts:
  Data play: Social coding sites
  More data play: Common domains

  This entry was posted in codes, data play, stats on March 1, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• February 2015 additions to the ASCL

  Twenty-three codes were added in February, 2015:

  ADAM: All-Data Asteroid Modeling
  AMIsurvey: Calibration and imaging pipeline for radio data
  AstroLines: Astrophysical line list generator in the H-band
  Camelus: Counts of Amplified Mass Elevations from Lensing with Ultrafast Simulations
  HDS: Hierarchical Data System

  KAPPA: Optically thin spectra synthesis for non-Maxwellian kappa-distributions
  ketu: Exoplanet candidate search code
  libnova: Celestial mechanics, astrometry and astrodynamics library
  Magnetron: Fitting bursts from magnetars
  MaLTPyNT: Quick look timing analysis for NuSTAR data

  Montblanc: GPU accelerated Radio Interferometer Measurement Equations in support of Bayesian Inference for Radio Observations
  nbody6tt: Tidal tensors in N-body simulations
  NGenIC: Cosmological structure initial conditions
  OpenOrb: Open-source asteroid orbit computation software
  PARSEC: PARametrized Simulation Engine for Cosmic rays

  PolyChord: Nested sampling for cosmology
  PyBDSM: Python Blob Detection and Source Measurement
  Rabacus: Analytic Cosmological Radiative Transfer Calculations
  RH 1.5D: Polarized multi-level radiative transfer with partial frequency distribution
  ROBOSPECT: Width fitting program

  SPHGR: Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics Galaxy Reduction
  XFGLENSES: Gravitational lens visualizer
  XPCell: Convective plasma cells simulator

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on March 1, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• More data play: Common domains

  Here's a quick look at the most common domains from the ASCL site links, with the actual counts included in the data labels.

  

  And this shows the top ten country domains among the entries, also with the actual counts shown:

  

  This entry was posted in codes, data play, stats on March 1, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• Data play: Social coding sites

  I've posted before about where the codes are; here's a pie that shows the relative use of Github, Google Code, Bitbucket, and Sourceforge. Please note that because all the Starlink codes are in one Github repo, that repo is represented only once in the pie below. Want to do your own analysis? The site links (1080 of them at the moment, as some codes have more than one) are available here.

  

  This entry was posted in codes, data play, stats on March 1, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• January 2015 additions to the ASCL
  Sixteen codes were added to the ASCL in January 2015:

  BIANCHI: Bianchi VIIh Simulations
  Colossus: COsmology, haLO, and large-Scale StrUcture toolS
  DECA: Decomposition of images of galaxies
  dst: Polarimeter data destriper
  Enrico: Python package to simplify Fermi-LAT analysis

  Exoplanet: Trans-dimentional MCMC method for exoplanet discovery
  Exorings: Exoring modelling software
  GalPaK 3D: Galaxy parameters and kinematics extraction from 3D data
  LP-VIcode: La Plata Variational Indicators Code
  Molecfit: Telluric absorption correction tool

  NIGO: Numerical Integrator of Galactic Orbits
  PsrPopPy: Pulsar Population Modelling Programs in Python
  PynPoint: Exoplanet image data analysis
  PythonPhot: Simple DAOPHOT-type photometry in Python
  python-qucs: Python package for automating QUCS simulations

  transfer: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Transfer Infrastructure

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on February 2, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• Percentage of ASCL entries with citations, 2014

  

  This entry was posted in codes, news, stats on January 10, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• December 2014 additions to the ASCL

  Fourteen codes were added to the ASCL in December 2014:

  BRUCE/KYLIE: Pulsating star spectra synthesizer
  Cheetah: Starspot modeling code
  CRPropa: Numerical tool for the propagation of UHE cosmic rays, gamma-rays and neutrinos
  DAMIT: Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques
  GeoTOA: Geocentric TOA tools

  HMF: Halo Mass Function calculator
  Hrothgar: MCMC model fitting toolkit
  MMAS: Make Me A Star
  PIAO: Python spherIcAl Overdensity code
  SoFiA: Source Finding Application

  SOPHIA: Simulations Of Photo Hadronic Interactions in Astrophysics
  TraP: Transients discovery pipeline for image-plane surveys
  URCHIN: Reverse ray tracer
  UTM: Universal Transit Modeller

   

  This entry was posted in code additions, codes, news on January 6, 2015 by Alice Allen.
• Update: Where the codes are; also, a bit about citing software

  This is an update on figures I've previously shared (most recently here). Currently, the ASCL indexes 977 codes. The percentage of these codes housed on social coding sites are:

  GitHub: 8.1%
  SourceForge: 4.2%
  Code.Google: 2.8%
  Bitbucket: 1.3%

  This gives us 16.4% of codes listed on the ASCL housed on a public social coding site, an increase since February of 5.4%, most of this from GitHub (up from 4.2% in February), though the percentages of four sites have increased.

  As I said in February, I expect the percentage of codes on social coding sites will continue to grow, especially since GitHub's use is increasing quickly in the community. One factor some credit for this increase is that GitHub has made it easy to push code to Zenodo for archiving and DOI minting, and providing another way to cite code.*

  As mentioned in my previous post, how codes are cited vary. Software citation will be the main topic at Tuesday's inaugural Software Publishing Special Interest Group meeting at AAS225, which will be held at 3:45 PM in 615 of the Convention Center. If you are at AAS this week, you are welcome to attend and I hope to see you there!

   

  *It was reported at .Astronomy6 that "some astro journals won't even accept a DOI as a citation." I don't know which journals and hope someone will enlighten me; I would like to know the rationale for that stance and would gladly take this up with publishers.

  This entry was posted in best practices, codes, discussion on January 3, 2015 by Alice Allen.