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most citedFrom Prompt to Pipeline: Large Language Models for Scientific Workflow Development in Bioinformatics

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cs.SE2026

Plausible Is Not Enough: Trust and Evidence in AI-Authored Pull Request Review

Md Shamimur Rahman, Khairul Alam, Banani Roy +1

Code review is where AI-authored pull requests (AIPRs) must earn reviewer trust before integration, yet it is unclear whether reviewers apply the same criteria used for human-autho…

cs.SE2026

Who Pays the Review Cost? Triage, Fairness, and Accountability in AI-authored Pull Requests

Md Shamimur Rahman, Khairul Alam, Banani Roy +1

AI coding agents are moving from local code assistance into pull-based workflows, where generated contributions must be reviewed, explained, and maintained within existing project…

cs.SE2026

Understanding Maintenance and Support in a Community-Driven Scientific Workflow Ecosystem: A Cross-Space Study of Galaxy

Khairul Alam, Kowsik Roy, Md Shamimur Rahman +1

Galaxy is a widely used, community-driven scientific workflow system whose sustainability depends on continuous maintenance across its software, tools, workflows, infrastructure, d…

cs.SE2026

Understanding Developer Pain Points in Federated Learning: Insights from Stack Overflow and GitHub

Sahand Saed, Khairul Alam, Banani Roy

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing raw data, but building and operating FL systems remains difficult due to distributed execution, ra…

cs.SE2026

Maintenance and Support in Community-Driven Scientific Pipeline Ecosystems: A Cross-Platform Empirical Study of nf-core

Khairul Alam, Kowsik Roy, Md Shamimur Rahman +1

Community-driven scientific pipeline ecosystems are increasingly important for reproducible data-intensive research, but their sustainability depends on more than workflow engines,…

cs.SE2026

Analyzing GitHub Issues and Pull Requests in nf-core Pipelines: Insights into nf-core Pipeline Repositories

Khairul Alam, Banani Roy

Scientific Workflow Systems (SWSs) such as Nextflow have become essential software frameworks for conducting reproducible, scalable, and portable computational analyses in data-int…

cs.SE2026

Why Are AI Agent Involved Pull Requests (Fix-Related) Remain Unmerged? An Empirical Study

Khairul Alam, Saikat Mondal, Banani Roy

Autonomous coding agents (e.g., OpenAI Codex, Devin, GitHub Copilot) are increasingly used to generate fix-related pull requests (PRs) in real world software repositories. However,…

cs.SE2026

What Drives Issue Resolution Speed? An Empirical Study of Scientific Workflow Systems on GitHub

Khairul Alam, Banani Roy

Scientific Workflow Systems (SWSs) play a vital role in enabling reproducible, scalable, and automated scientific analysis. Like other open-source software, these systems depend on…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

From Prompt to Pipeline: Large Language Models for Scientific Workflow Development in Bioinformatics

Khairul Alam, Banani Roy

Scientific Workflow Systems such as Galaxy and Nextflow are essential for scalable, reproducible, and automated bioinformatics analyses. However, developing and understanding scien…

cs.SE2024

Developer Challenges on Large Language Models: A Study of Stack Overflow and OpenAI Developer Forum Posts

Khairul Alam, Kartik Mittal, Banani Roy +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained widespread popularity due to their exceptional capabilities across various domains, including chatbots, healthcare, education, content gene…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

An Empirical Investigation on the Challenges in Scientific Workflow Systems Development

Khairul Alam, Banani Roy, Chanchal K. Roy +1

Scientific Workflow Systems (SWSs) are advanced software frameworks that drive modern research by orchestrating complex computational tasks and managing extensive data pipelines. T…

cs.SE2023

Reusability Challenges of Scientific Workflows: A Case Study for Galaxy

Khairul Alam, Banani Roy, Alexander Serebrenik

Scientific workflow has become essential in software engineering because it provides a structured approach to designing, executing, and analyzing scientific experiments. Software d…