[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] Marcos Oliveira de Carvalho • April 26, 2002
    ``Open-source programming created a revolution in operating systems, making Linux a popular alternative to Microsoft's Windows. The idea-to make software source code open for modification by anyone-has caught on in large part because more eyes on the software means rapid improvements and fewer bugs; companies like Red Hat have turned the idea into profits by selling easily installed, well-supported versions of Linux. Now Cape Town, South Africa-based Electric Genetics is, for the first time, applying that business model to biomedical software.

    ``In June, Electric Genetics plans to launch its first open-source product, a package of programs that link human DNA sequence data to information about how and when genes are turned on, and about the proteins encoded by those genes. `The science behind genomics is changing weekly,' says cofounder Tania Broveak Hide. `A commercial software company, with your typical 12- to 18-month development cycle-I really don't think that works for a fast-moving scientific discipline.'''

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    http://www.techreview.com/articles/innnovation60502.asp

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dna defragmentation
Submitted by Nobody ; posted on Monday, May 6, 2002
how the dna un winds and again reproduces by semiconservative process plz explain with diagrams if possible

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dna defragmentation
Submitted by Nobody ; posted on Monday, May 6, 2002
how the dna un winds and again reproduces by semiconservative process plz explain with diagrams if possible

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