I was just thinking the other day about how good academic software is getting. And how useful it is to society that masters and PhDs are making software for the

I was just thinking the other day about how good academic software is getting. And how useful it is to society that masters and PhDs are making software for the research. Look at RapidMiner (developed at U. Dortmund), Stanford's CoreNLP, and the brat rapid annotation tool. These are better than a lot of commercial tools. They are more text-analytics than bioinformatics, but same diff.