Genomics is still predominantly a research field. In research, software development and hence software engineers are not valued much, because technologies chang

Genomics is still predominantly a research field. In research, software development and hence software engineers are not valued much, because technologies change rapidly, new ideas come every day, so it is about being able to hack together a workable solution enough to write a paper or get funding. Software development becomes important when certain data processing methods have been standardised, eg mapping sequencing data to mouse or human genome, differential expression analysis, pca visualisations.