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D'Trends: Mining tools for data spelunkers

April 20, 1998 7:00 AM UTC

In 1987, when the Human Genome Project was barely two years old and Hwa Lim was program director at Florida State University's Supercomputer Computing Research Institute, Lim envisioned that the maturation and union of genomics and bioinformatics would be essential to fast and competent drug discovery.

By 1990, Lim had co-authored a book on the subject. He also began the groundwork for his own company which, by 1997, was incorporated and offered more than a dozen bioinformatics products dedicated to drug discovery and development...