"A lot of other problems in the fields of machine learning, bioinformatics, etc are largely just software problems." Speaking as someone who has been pretty fa

"A lot of other problems in the fields of machine learning, bioinformatics, etc are largely just software problems." Speaking as someone who has been pretty far down this road, the "inexpensive" part of bioinformatics is relatively unimportant. You don't get anywhere real without lab work, and that's as expensive as ever. I'd love to see the web2.0 moguls funnel their money into antibiotics research or hydrogen-generating bacteria, but make no mistake: that kind of work takes a lot of cash.