I'm reminded of this rant from Richard O'Keefe (of Prolog fame). It was a while ago, but little has changed. "I don't know what art these [bioinformatics] pro

I'm reminded of this rant from Richard O'Keefe (of Prolog fame). It was a while ago, but little has changed. "I don't know what art these [bioinformatics] programs are state-of; possibly macrame. They certainly aren't even 1970's state of the programming art." "Is it reasonable to expect people with a biochemistry or mathematics background to write clean well-engineered code? No. For the importance of the topic, and the sums of money involved, is it reasonable to expect that they'll have their programs cleaned by someone else before release? I think it is. With the pervasive lack of quality I'm seeing, I don't trust _any_ of the results of these programs. I have to wonder how many published results obtained using these programs (and fed back into databases that are used to derive more results which are ...) are actually valid." http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/m/risks/21/98#subj8.1 http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/m/risks/21/98#subj8.1