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by DrScientist 1427 days ago
Totally - I remember hearing from Sean Eddy how hard it was to get continued funding to work on hmmer - making it faster, more sensitive, more general, more robust etc.

Well crafted academic software is a rarity - the stuff that does exist tends to comes out of institutes where the software is necessary to their wider mission - like the Broad or Sanger Institutes.