Comment by AnaniasAnanas
6 years ago
> It keeps people from reinventing the wheel
Actually it forces people to reinvent the wheel in possibly worse ways.
6 years ago
> It keeps people from reinventing the wheel
Actually it forces people to reinvent the wheel in possibly worse ways.
Or possibly better. Thinking of the explosion of DNA sequencing technology over the past decade, I'm kind of grateful that people reinvented the wheel about a half-dozen times (Solexa/Illumina, 454, IonTorrent, Solid, PacBio, ONT, etc.)