[MOBY-l] Nature Rev. Genetics paper on dynamic software infrastructures

[Twigger Simon]

I came across this today via another mailing list and thought it  
would be of interest to those who can get at it...

http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v8/n3/abs/nrg2048.html

"Abstract | Progress in systems biology is seriously hindered by slow  
production
of suitable software infrastructures. Biologists need infrastructure  
that easily
connects to work that is done in other laboratories, for which  
standardization
is helpful. However, the infrastructure must also accommodate the  
specifics of
their biological system, but appropriate mechanisms to support variation
are currently lacking. We argue that a minimal computer language, and a
software tool called a generator, can be used to quickly produce  
customized
software infrastructures that ‘systems biologists really want to have’.

Mentions MOBY and other things but I havent had a chance to read it  
all as yet.

Simo.

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