They wrote the fastest parallelized BAM parser in D

[george via Digitalmars-d]

> .NET actually already has a foothold in bioinformatics, 
> specially in user facing software and steering of reading 
> equipments and robots.
>
> So D's needs a story over C# and F# (alongside WPF for data 
> visualization) use cases.
>
> --
> Paulo

Though when it comes to open source bioinformatics projects, Perl 
and Python have a large foothold
among most most bioinformaticians. Most utilities that require 
speed are often written in C and C++ (BLAST, HMMER, SAMTOOLS etc).

I think D stands a good chance as a language of choice for 
bioinformatics projects.

George