Sounds like the only way you could ensure a healthy environment in this field would be to follow the Matlab or the Wolfram model. In other words, create a softw

Sounds like the only way you could ensure a healthy environment in this field would be to follow the Matlab or the Wolfram model. In other words, create a software company whose customers are bioinformaticians. Maybe find a bioinformatics academic to help guide product development enough to get some contracts with research institutions, and take it from there. It sounds like academia is simply too toxic, entitled, full of itself and hierarchical to provide an environment with good software practices can thrive.