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A few quick google searches would tell you a brief story of bioinformatics as a branch of biology that utilizes programming. That sounds pretty simple, right? But if you dig a little deeper, you’ll find out that it’s used for genome sequencing, proteomics, or metabolomics. At this point, I think we can agree that a bit more detailed explanation would be adequate. So here it is.

Among the overwhelming number of dull software projects like the 1000th clone of Candy Crush or pointless apps such as “electric razor simulators”, bioinformatics is something that actually matters. It is software that significantly contributes to the world of science and healthcare. Over the last several years, creating life-changing software became a significant part of our everyday life.

On a scale of challenging and demanding industries for software development, science-related projects are most certainly very high on the list. Dealing with cutting-edge technology and heavily regulated pharmaceutical companies make the job challenging. But you know what? We love it.

Code Poets’ main passion is… writing code. Obviously. We do our best to structure our work so that programming is always the #1 priority. But once you start coding as a part of a bigger organization, there are other tasks and responsibilities that come into play. One of them is time reporting — a very important aspect of collaborating with clients. Most software houses look at it as the necessary evil, and, to be honest, so did we. But after many wasted hours and loads of frustration we’ve finally made the leap and created our own time reporting software. Guess what? We’ve never looked back