In article <1993Feb25.184958.1 at molbiol.ox.ac.uk>, kuzio at molbiol.ox.ac.uk writes:
|> How long before there is a *complete* gene analysis service offered
|> (commercial or otherwise)?
It might never happen. Science is moving faster than software. And as long
as the funding policy prohibits to write serious software but rather
enourages you to get your project done and then not generalize the program
you have used (because that's service and not science), academia won't do it.
Commercials certainly would like to do it, but as we make them give away
their software for less and less money they don't have the resources to
get it up in time. Seriously, there are so many features that the scientific
community would like to have that I can hardly imagine a software company
which has enough revenue to employ a fully-fledged staff. Writing niche
products, or specifically targeted products, is fairly easy. Providing
the big bang global solution might never happen. Sigh.
Regards
Reinhard
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