Lack of Software Engineering Practices in the Development of Bioinformatics Software

摘要

Bioinformatics is a growing field in the software industry. However there is very little evidence that sound software engineering practices are being applied to bioinformatics software development. As bioinformatics is a merging of the disciplines of biology and computer science, it would appear very odd that this, particularly important aspect of the computer science field would be absent, however that is the case. This paper will attempt to go into the reasons for this, as well as propositions that others have put forward to remedy this issue. We finally propose an approach towards resolving the software/requirement engineering challenges by comparing four methodologies Agile, SSADM, UP and Domain Engineering, and select the best approach that can help resolve the software/requirement engineering issues while developing bioinformatics software.