The institute is famous because it completed the first gene sequencing of a living organism, a bacterium, in 1995, and its techniques, including the "shotgun" sequencing algorithms created by Craig Venter, lead to a proliferation of gene-sequencing projects.
All of the non-profit institute's software is considered open source code and made available to other research organizations. It's available for free download on SourceForge. A sample of what's available can be seen at http://www.tigr.org/software/.
"What good is our software if the public can't afford the infrastructure to run it on," Sapiro asks. The proliferation of lower cost, 64-bit servers is going to speed advances in genome research into human pathogens, hereditary diseases and other areas deemed likely to lead to better lives, he said.
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