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Compose "dream tools" from continuously evolving bundles of software to make sense of complex scientific data sets.

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                Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 3
                March 2011
                116 pages
                ISSN:0001-0782
                EISSN:1557-7317
                DOI:10.1145/1897852
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