These guys are behind it
http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/261/2616346...
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No matter what, just remember that it's Friday and the sun is still out at 6pm.
Biologists are almost never good coders, if they can code at all. But thats not what they do, they signed up for pipettes, not python.
Its the programmers who wrote said shitty code that are to be blamed, but you can't hate under-paid and over-worked phd students who write this code even though it usually has nothing to do with their thesis (the math/algorithm is the main part, the deployable implementation is usually not the most important).
If you want good code and organized/accountable databases, go to industry. Theres nothing new about this transition. The IMPORTANT part, is that industry gives back to academia. So when you get an office with windows and a working coffee machine, remember to help make some phd student's life a little easier by making part of your code open source.