Taproot

About Taproot

Taproot is built by software gardeners focused on sustainable research software. We help teams and reviewers evaluate repository quality, reproducibility signals, and long-term maintainability.

Software Gardeners Growing This Project

Portrait of Gregory P Way

Gregory P Way

Assistant professor, computational biologist, and open-source maintainer.

Gregory brings deep expertise in machine learning, genomics, and image-based profiling, with a strong emphasis on reproducible biomedical data science. In Taproot, he helps shape the scientific direction and quality framework so software assessments are rigorous, practical, and useful for manuscript evaluation.

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Dave Bunten

Research software engineer focused on software gardening, developer experience, and practical tooling.

Dave focuses on software design, data engineering, collaboration, and long-term maintainability. In Taproot, he drives implementation and operations, translating software gardening principles into dependable workflows teams can use in real publication and review pipelines.