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However, the majority of the scientists at the forefront of experimental research are not bioinformaticians, so a gap exists between the user-friendly software needed and the scripting\/programming infrastructure often employed for the analysis of large numbers of genes, long genomic segments and groups of sequences. We see an urgent need for the expansion of the fundamental paradigms under which biologist-friendly software tools are designed and developed to fulfill the needs of biologists to analyze large datasets by using sophisticated computational methods. We argue that the design principles need to be sensitive to the reality that comparatively small teams of biologists have historically developed some of the most popular biological software packages in molecular evolutionary analysis. Furthermore, biological intuitiveness and investigator empowerment need to take precedence over the current supposition that biologists should re-tool and become programmers when analyzing genome scale datasets.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0s.kumar@asu.edu<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btm239","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,5,8]],"date-time":"2007-05-08T00:13:40Z","timestamp":1178583220000},"page":"1713-1717","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":62,"title":["Bioinformatics software for biologists in the genomics era"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Sudhir","family":"Kumar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, The Biodesign Institute and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-5301 and 2Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5479, USA"}]},{"given":"Joel","family":"Dudley","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, The Biodesign Institute and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-5301 and 2Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5479, USA"},{"name":"1 Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, The Biodesign Institute and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-5301 and 2Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5479, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2007,5,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023041105222396000_","volume-title":"Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins","author":"Baxevanis","year":"2005"},{"key":"2023041105222396000_","volume-title":"Genomes","author":"Brown","year":"1999"},{"key":"2023041105222396000_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2909","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bti425","article-title":"BEST: binding-site estimation suite of tools","volume":"21","author":"Che","year":"2005","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"2023041105222396000_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1283","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1123061","article-title":"Toward automatic reconstruction of a highly resolved tree of life","volume":"311","author":"Ciccarelli","year":"2006","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"2023041105222396000_","volume-title":"Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure. 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