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Fig. 1 | Genome Biology

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From: Challenges in funding and developing genomic software: roots and remedies

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a William and Caroline Herschel’s 40-foot telescope in Slough, England, 1789 [1]. b Two of the teams of scientists that contributed to the Human Genome Project: (top) Sanger Center, Hinxton, UK [2]; (bottom) Washington University Genome Sequencing Center, St. Louis, USA, both circa 2000. c Some relics of the pre-Internet world: (clockwise from top left) the author learning to program in BASIC on a Commodore 64 in a cold upstate New York basement, 1983 (credit: Virginia Siepel), as one of the millions of children who were introduced to home computers during the 1980s and 1990s, some of whom would go on to write much of the software that powers genomics today; floppy disk for PAUP version 3.1.1,©1993; Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 1 with Mosaic web browser faintly visible on screen, 1994 [3]; screen shot from the MASE alignment program [4]. d Prof. David Haussler of UC Santa Cruz with the original Dell computer cluster that his team used to assemble the human genome, 2000. Photo (c) UC Santa Cruz, used with permission

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