We don't have funding to hire coders/developers/designers. And even if we did, we'd likely spend it on that new microscope instead.
Much of what we need doesn't require computational power, but requires a good input parser, a reasonable UI, and some basic (though absolutely solid) math. And a way to change a whole host of variables used in the computations without too much effort. I have a set of a few projects that a mildly competent coder could bang out in a relatively short period of time that would undoubtedly progress the whole field in which it was aimed. But that's pretty much like 20 people. 20 grad students - their bosses don't care if they count the data by hand over a week, or have a computer do it in 2 minutes. It's not worth anyone's (unpayable) time. So I code it myself - it's crappy, it's rough, but it gets the job done. But no one will ever be able to reuse that code.
You hackers want to do something good for the world? Set up a hackathon thing for your local biology/chemistry grad students. In a weekends' time you can write a few open-source apps which would rapidly and noticeably affect the pace of cancer and other basic research.