The documents say that the "excellent quality and reproducibility" of E.coli indicated "highly satisfactory results" could be achieved.

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Data that are relevant to these issues should be shared so that the results can be tested for their reproducibility.

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The vagaries of hardware, software and natural language will always ensure that exact reproducibility remains uncertain, but withholding code increases the chances that efforts to reproduce results will fail.

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