[wladimir]

Wasn't bioinformatics even one of the early adoptors of Python in 2001/2002? I could be wrong, but I seem to remember something like that.

[gilesc]

Well, bioinformaticians are far from uniform in terms of language usage (my mentor staunchly defends his use of VB6, for instance...), but this link shows people using Python for structural bioinformatics as early as 2001: http://mgl.scripps.edu/people/sanner/html/talks/PSB2001talk....