I've worked as an academic hacker. Amongst dedicated biologists, there's no motivation to release your source code. It's the job of a biologist to publish pape

I've worked as an academic hacker. Amongst dedicated biologists, there's no motivation to release your source code. It's the job of a biologist to publish papers so that he or she can pull down the next grant. Anything that doesn't further this goal is going to get zero traction. Publishing it doesn't help you get into Nature or Science. Sure, Sean Eddy (www.psc.edu/general/software/packages/hmmer/) is going to release his code, but he's a methods guy. The software is the focus of publication. The only way code is going to get published is if the journals refuse to publish results without code.