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I caught this post on Microsoft bioinformatics research through my PubSub subscription to the keyword "bioinformatics". The post points to the Bioinformatics homepage at Microsoft Research, as well as a streaming video interview (warning: WMV file) with one of the researchers. The first part of the video stream includes an interview with developer Eric Horvitz. During the interview he says something along the lines of "At Microsoft we are held up to a higher standard", not that I'm aware of... David Heckerman, the Bioinformatics guy, claims to have invented the first spam filter ? David discusses the details of the HIV project they are working on and how "Bill" personally pushed the project. Should we be worried that Microsoft is interested in bioinformatics ?