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Nature 416, 357 (28 March 2002) | doi:10.1038/416357a

Software firm falls victim to shifting bioinformatics needs

Jonathan Knight

DoubleTwist, once one of the most dynamic bioinformatics companies of the dotcom age, died quietly on 7 March at its home in Oakland, California.At its peak, the software firm beat both public and private DNA sequencers to a count of the genes in the human genome.