Open Source Software In Life Science Research Practical Solutions To Common Challenges In The Pharmaceutical Industry And Beyond 1st Edition Lee Harland by Lee Harland, Mark Forster 9781907568978, 1907568972 instant download after payment.

The free/open source approach has grown from a minor activity to a significant producer of robust, task-orientated software for a wide variety of situations and applications. Examples range from core infrastructure platforms such as the Apache web-server, powerful document indexing and search tools, such as Lucene, through to major user-orientated systems such as Mediawiki (which powers Wikipedia) and Drupal (which powers many diverse websites).To life science informatics groups, these systems present an appealing proposition - high quality software at a very attractive price. The contributors and editors consider how industry and applied research groups have embraced these resources and discuss practical implementations that address real-world business problems.