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Scientists Abandon their Software
Good biology programs abound in universities, but academia offers little incentive to keep them current
The Scientist 2004, 18(3):47
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Last summer, a member of the biology department of the University of Udine in Italy approached Nicola Vitacolonna with an intriguing project. The ANREP program, which annotates structural motifs in gene or protein sequences, was out of date having been written more than a decade ago. Although still used by molecular biologists, its slow computing ability meant a straightforward multiple search could take all night on a desktop PC. The Udine biologist wanted Vitacolonna, a postdoctoral fellow in computational biology, to write a program that could do the job more quickly.
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