Well, tell the head-hunters where they can hunt for developers.
Miles Egan wrote:
> As a chemist turned programmer, I've been following the growing interest/hype in
> bioinformatics with growing curiousity and amusement. While I think it's being
> a bit oversold as the "next big thing" I do think that the mapping of the genome
> has opened the gates for some big leaps in biology.
>
> Several startups are forming now to try and make use of all this new genetic
> information through computational techniques. It seems to me that lisp has a
> lot to offer these projects - they play to so many of lisp strengths. They are,
> for the most part, projects involving high performance, complex analysis and
> correlation of large amounts of data. The winners in this market will have to
> develop sophisticated and efficent software quickly.
>
> Unlike the software developed in the recent dot-com and e-commerce boom, much
> of this software will have to be capable of performing some fairly
> sophisticated and intelligent computation. Like the recent dot-com boom, most
> of this software won't be subject to strict client integration requirements and
> can run fairly anonymously on a backend server.
>
> It seems to me that a handful of smart lisp programmers could make a big splash
> here.
>
> --
> miles egan