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The democratization of bioinformatics: A software engineering perspective

Author(s) -

Brendan Lawlor,

Roy D Sleator

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

gigascience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.947

H-Index - 54

ISSN - 2047-217X

DOI - 10.1093/gigascience/giaa063

Subject(s) - cloud computing , computer science , scalability , software engineering , software , data science , perspective (graphical) , the internet , world wide web , database , programming language , artificial intelligence , operating system

Today, thanks to advances in cloud computing, it is possible for small teams of software developers to produce internet-scale products, a feat that was previously the preserve of large organizations. Herein, we describe how these advances in software engineering can be made more readily available to bioinformaticians. In the same way that cloud computing has democratized access to distributed systems engineering for generalist software engineers, access to scalable and reproducible bioinformatic engineering can be democratized for generalist bioinformaticians and biologists. We present solutions, based on our own efforts, to achieve this goal.

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