>I believe/hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc. I somehow ended up in a aca

>I believe/hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc. I somehow ended up in a academic Genetics lab, writing software. We use a lot of languages here (Php, python, perl, java, R, javascript and even some C) and various web frameworks to let people use our tools to do science. I don't know if the creators of these tools imagined they'd be used for science, but they put the tools out there in the public and they were used. You contribute, because its the right thing todo, that makes you significant. You never know how significant what you put out there will end up being, but it helps you grow too. The open source community inspires and you by contributing are part of that. Every little bit helps. "Bioinformatics" is a general term of the use of computing in Biology. Its an interesting field.