I am the author of this post. I don't disagree with anything you wrote. Several posts on my blog say exactly this. The software I wrote however is open source o

I am the author of this post. I don't disagree with anything you wrote. Several posts on my blog say exactly this. The software I wrote however is open source on github [1], has it's own website [2], has man pages for each command [3], example projects [4] and three screencasts guiding how to install and use it [5]. I did this because I wished that all bioinformatics software had this attention to usability and documentation. However now I wonder what was the point of all of this if no one ever ends up using it? I could have done the minimum for publication then spent this time working on finishing other manuscripts I have waiting. As I wrote though, I agree with what you wrote in your comment. I just don't think there is any incentive for post-docs in academia to prioritise writing good software over pushing out additional papers. [1]: https://github.com/michaelbarton/genomer https://github.com/michaelbarton/genomer [2]: http://next.gs http://next.gs [3]: https://github.com/michaelbarton/genomer-plugin-view/tree/master/man https://github.com/michaelbarton/genomer-plugin-view/tree/ma... [4]: https://github.com/michaelbarton/chromosome-pfluorescens-r124-genome https://github.com/michaelbarton/chromosome-pfluorescens-r12... [5]: http://www.youtube.com/user/BioinformaticsZen http://www.youtube.com/user/BioinformaticsZen