Stewart J E, Mangalam H, Zhou J
Open Informatics, Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA.
Brief Bioinform. 2001 Dec;2(4):319-28. doi: 10.1093/bib/2.4.319.
Use of the Open Source Software (OSS) development model has been crucial in a number of recent technological areas, including operating systems, applications and bioinformatics. The rationale for why OSS is often a better development model than proprietary development and some of the results of this model in the field of Gene Expression are reviewed. The paper concludes with a discussion of why funding agencies should endorse OSS and require funded software projects to be released Open Source.
开源软件(OSS)开发模式的应用在包括操作系统、应用程序和生物信息学在内的多个近期技术领域中至关重要。本文回顾了为何OSS通常是比专有开发更好的开发模式,以及该模式在基因表达领域的一些成果。文章最后讨论了资助机构为何应支持OSS,并要求获得资助的软件项目以开源形式发布。