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GCG, the old bioinformatics package, was named after the authors kept high-fiving each other, shouting "good code guys!" #bioinformatics

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Bowtie is named so because "it is almost impossible to tie", referring to code to avoid a "race condition" when using multiple processors

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TopHat is named do because it was the first spliced RNA-Seq aligner, and when it worked first time, the authors shouted "Top that!"

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EBI" actually stands for "European bureau of investigation". It's a front of the EU secret service, collecting genomic info #bioinformatics