Context. Large-scale software development projects are those consisting of a large number of teams, maybe even spread across multiple locations, and working on large and complex software tasks. That means that neither a team member individually nor an entire team holds all the knowledge about the software being developed and teams have to communicate and coordinate their knowledge. Therefore, t...

Proteomics is the large-scale study of an organism's complete complement of proteins, and its relevant technologies have matured over recent years. Along with the development of mass spectrometry (MS), MS-based proteomics has emerged as an invaluable tool for largescale identification and quantification of protein networks (Aebersold & Mann, 2003; Domon & Aebersold, 2006). Proteomic data is imp...

Computational scientists face many challenges when developing software that runs on large-scale parallel machines. However, their software development processes have not previously been studied in much detail by software engineering researchers. To better understand the nature of software development in this context, we examined five largescale computational science software projects, known as ...