Today, thanks to advances in cloud computing, it is possible for small teams of software developers to produce internet-scale products, a feat that was previously the preserve of large organizations. Herein, we describe how these advances in software engineering can be made more readily available to bioinformaticians. In the same way that cloud computing has democratized access to distributed systems engineering for generalist software engineers, access to scalable and reproducible bioinformatic engineering can be democratized for generalist bioinformaticians and biologists. We present solutions, based on our own efforts, to achieve this goal.

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生物信息学的民主化：软件工程的视角。

今天，由于云计算的进步，小规模的软件开发团队有可能生产互联网规模的产品，这在以前是大型组织的专利。在这里，我们描述了如何使生物信息学家更容易获得软件工程方面的这些进步。与云计算使通才软件工程师对分布式系统工程的访问民主化的方式相同，通才生物信息学家和生物学家对可扩展和可重复的生物信息工程的访问也可以民主化。我们根据自己的努力提出解决方案，以实现这一目标。