ABIC abstract.

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Building Better Bioinformatics Software: Why the Heck Not?

I've been tremendously unhappy with a number of bioinformatics papers, many of
which focus on uselessly benchmarking isolated components of much larger
pipelines (short-read mappers being the best, or worst example).  I will
talk about our efforts to provide pipeline-level benchmarks of a small
subset of the massive profusion of NGS tools, discuss the parlous state of
effective bioinformatics tools research, and argue that to a large degree
bioinformaticians deserve the scorn of biologists everywhere.  But I'll be
humorous about it.