Summary: The application of computer technology to the management of biological information. Specifically, it is the science of developing computer databases and algorithms to facilitate and expedite biological research, particularly in genomics

Is anyone else out there using .Net to implement bioinformatics algorithms?

I've been implementing a clustering algorithm for close to three years now, it started as top down style C and is being re written in C# and possibly some managed C++.

Most of the work I see going on in the field seems to be written in Java and Perl. IBM and Oracle seem to be making major investments in the arena, The next version of Oracle 10g is going to support the BLAST algorithm etc.

Though some major industry leaders like Affymetrix do use COM/.Net

LazyCoder - Not yet, but I plan to use a BayesianInference in a cancer research database I'm working on to determine the quality of a patients data. We're still working on getting the data into the database from the various systems. Once we have the data importing on a daily (hourly?) basis, I'll probably use some of the clustering algorithms built into MS OLAP server to generate patient datasets. We're not doing any genomic analysis (yet).