Pretty Microsoft baubles

Microsoft’s, “up to its old tricks of offering pretty baubles to the innocent with The Microsoft Biology Foundation ,” writes Gly Moody (right) in Open going on »»» The bioinformatics community has developed a strong tradition of open development, code sharing, and cross-platform support, and a number of language-specific bioinformatics toolkits are now available. These toolkits serve as valuable nucleation points for the community, promoting the sharing of code and establishing de facto standards. The Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) is a language-neutral bioinformatics toolkit built as an extension to the Microsoft .NET Framework.

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