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BIOINFORMATICS Editorial OPEN BIOINFORMATICS

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Many wonderful algorithms are published each month in Bioinformatics and other computational biology journals. Most of these algorithms are made freely available to the rest of the bioinformatics community. However, there is a growing trend to make new software available only through a HTML interface on the World-Wide Web, or via a closed, proprietary binary distribution. This trend will ultimately inhibit the growth of our discipline. As a community, we need to dedicate ourselves to the free and open exchange of algorithms and software. Our journals recognize the need for freely exchanged ideas: Bioinformatics requires that software be available for two years. However, the mechanism of making programs available to the rest of the community is not specified. The choice is rightly left up to the researcher. But some choices are better than others, and it is important to be sure that we make the choice that will best advance our community as well as our careers. The most forthright approach to sharing software is through the use of Open Source. The Open Source initiative makes the original source code available to other developers via a license that allows for free redistribution and derived works while preserving the integrity of the author’s original source code (see

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(2008). BIOINFORMATICS Editorial OPEN BIOINFORMATICS.

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@article{anon2008bioinformatics,
  title = {{BIOINFORMATICS Editorial OPEN BIOINFORMATICS}},
  year = {2008}
}

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