They wrote the fastest parallelized BAM parser in D

[george via Digitalmars-d]

http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/02/18/bioinformatics.btv098.full.pdf+html

and a feature
http://google-opensource.blogspot.nl/2015/03/gsoc-project-sambamba-published-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+GoogleOpenSourceBlog+(Google+Open+Source+Blog)


D may hold a sweet spot in bioinformatics where you often require 
quick turnaround (productivity) , raw speed and agility.