Acknowledgements

I'd like to thank everyone whom I discussed about software quality and bioinformatics, fellow developers and co-workers at EBI and SIB.

Special thanks goes to André Uratsuka, Mauro Persano and Diego Souza for the long (long) discussions over the messenger, Daniel Barrel, Julius Jacobsen, Sarah Hunter and Michael Kleen at EBI for the awesome support on what really is bioinformatics and how the development of it happened, and finally Eric Jain and Nicole Redaschi at SIB for the long (long) discussions by email and mailing lists about bioinformatics, semantics and technology.