Where to publish a script?

Question

[lakhujanivijay]

I have developed a Python script which adds a new functionality to a popularly used bioinformatics tool (which is also coded in Python).

The reason for me to develop it myself was that the authors denied any future development for the requested feature, hence, I happened to write it myself. It was difficult and took days; but now it serves my purpose.

Now, we want to publish it so as to make it available to others working with the same tool but facing the same difficulty.

Question: Where can I publish the script? Ofcourse, I can put the source code on Github etc. But is there any journal accepting a script ? It's not a full fledged tool; just a script but is very very helpful. So, I wonder if I can publish it somewhere.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

[Philipp Bayer]

You can always slap a DOI on your repository: https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/

Since your script adds functionality to an already existing tool it'd be hard to publish on your own, possibly together with the main author if there's no publication on the original tool.

Answer 2

[LLTommy]

What is the popular bioinformatic tool? Wouldn't it make sense to talk to these guys to include it in their tool instead of asking us (without giving any concrete information what you actually talk about)?

Answer 3

[andrew.j.skelton73]

A lot of R workflows are published in F1000, if you could spin your feature into a use case, and write a full workflow, then I think you'd have a shot at getting it in there.

Answer 4

[lakhujanivijay]

Try it here: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-software-technology/short-communications

Answer 5

[Carlo Yague]

The Journal of Open Source Software

The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a developer friendly journal for research software packages.

Found it thx to this blog btw.