It is time to end the patenting of software

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One of the most significant outcomes of genomics has been a rapid increase in the rate that we as a community can generate data on interesting biological systems. Rapid improvements in technologies such as DNA microarrays and proteomics applications have produced a climate where the challenge is no longer collecting high quality data but rather managing and analyzing it. As we in the bioinformatics community have addressed this challenge, we have had to carefully consider the way in which the results of our intellectual efforts—the software tools that we develop—are made available to the wider research community. Increasingly, bioinformatics scientists are coming to call for development in an open source environment in which software is distributed with its underlying source code under a license that generally allows broad reuse and redistribution of the code under certain, usually minimal, restrictions.

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