"Mathematica is an indispensable puzzle-solving tool for biological sciences, which are becoming increasingly more quantitative."

"It's a remarkably diverse collection of functionalities.... You're stunned by the things it can do. It's my desert-island application."

"As more data about this outbreak becomes available, we can instantly import it, redo our calculations, and get better results. Then, we can improve predictions and design better control policies."

"[Mathematica] was helpful.... It was easy to set up, and came up with a lot of interesting rules which did things... I didn't know that these kinds of distance transforms could do."