compbio is not a field you'd want to go in if you want to use well-written tools exclusively. There's tons of absolutely abominable Perl and R code powering cri

compbio is not a field you'd want to go in if you want to use well-written tools exclusively. There's tons of absolutely abominable Perl and R code powering critical pipelines everywhere you look. What makes matters worse is that scientists, who are already not great coders, have to work with even less technical people (i.e. the physicians). These collaborative processes will inevitably involve software like Excel. Need your M.D. co-collaborator to annotate a gene list or whatever? Your CSV's getting re-saved in Excel whether you like it or not.