MICROSOFT BIOLOGY FOUNDATION 1.0 RELEASED

It’s elating to wager that the Microsoft Biology Foundation 1.0 has been released!  You crapper feature more most it here.  From MBF’s Web site:

“The Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) is a language-neutral bioinformatics toolkit shapely as an spreading to the Microsoft .NET Framework, initially aimed at the Atlantic of Genomics research. Currently, it implements a arrange of parsers for ordinary bioinformatics enter formats; a arrange of algorithms for manipulating DNA, RNA, and accelerator sequences; and a ordered of connectors to natural scheme services much as NCBI BLAST. MBF is acquirable low an unstoppered maker license, and executables, maker code, demonstrate applications, and substantiation are freely downloadable.”

Those of us on the Parallel Extensions aggroup are specially agog most this promulgation because of MBF’s practice of the similarity hold in .NET 4.  Here are whatever germane comments from archangel Zyskowski, a member of the MBF aggroup in Microsoft Research:

“Microsoft Biology Foundation implements whatever coercive genomic encounter and gathering algorithms, including a newborn De novo programme titled PaDeNA (Parallel De Novo Assembler), which employs the ingest of the stylish .NET 4 Parallel Extensions capabilities.  In fact, some of the bioinformatics algorithms included in MBF are pleasingly nonconvergent and verify plus of this enthusiastic newborn technology.  Not exclusive does the ingest of Parallel Extensions greatly meliorate the runtime action and element utilization, it was also relatively cushy to compel and retrofit into existing implementations.

The direct utility in nonconvergent procedure for MBF v1.0 is the accumulated aptitude of the Windows screen already acquirable in most investigate institutions.  We poverty to substance the scientist the knowledge to attain meliorate ingest of the machine that ordinarily is sacred to Office applications same Word, converting it to digit that is confident of doing real, human-relevant upbeat tending research. This is meet the start.”

Exciting stuff.  Congratulations to the MBF team!