Software tools in Bioinformatics: A survey on the importance and Issues faced in implementation (original) (raw)

Bioinformatics tools are very complex and critical software tools in life sciences. Bioinformatics tools in today’s world range from simple basic tools to very large sophisticated software packages. In spite of increasing complexity and sophistication of the bioinformatics tools, these tools are increasingly used in the field of modern biology. This introduction of software tools in the field of modern biology has its distinct advantages as well as there are some challenges in their implementation. This study was conducted in keeping with the aim of discussing these advantages and challenges faced with the implementation of bioinformatics tools. This paper has two main objectives; first discusses the challenges faced in the development of bioinformatics tools from a software development point of view. Second, the results of the survey based on the importance and issues in bioinformatics tools are presented from an end user point of view. The main audience of this survey were student...