One problem is citation limits for many journals (which say that you can only cite 25 or 50 papers or whatever). As a computational biologist myself, I would prefer to cite every package that I use because I understand that the authors need this to get grants for further development, etc.<p>But what happens when the more senior authors (who tend to be experimentalists) get the manuscript, they want to add a bunch of experimental citations and they see citations of computational methods as irrelevant and able to be sacrificed if there are too many citations.