Well, sort of :-) One of our most recent scientific users of F# is Darren Platt, head of computational genomics at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (they sequence something like 20% of the world’s DNA - here are the stats). Darren is a co-author of the recent stunning paper on Neanderthal DNA (see screen shots below),
Read the full blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2006/12/06/using-fsharp-to-help-show-we-re-not-neanderthals.aspx