Most traditional programming concepts don't apply and there's a lot of soft science being applied to numerous technologies for usage on numerous platforms.

绝大多数传统的编程思想已经不适用了，为了在多种平台中使用，多种技术都借鉴了大量软科学的知识和理念。

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Life Technologies, formed by the merger last year of life science tools companies Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen, has an estimated 65% of the market for PCR machines used for research and has licensed its technology to 12 other companies making the machines.

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