The Null Device

Up here for thinking! Biologists in Norway have come up with an innovative way of finding genes likely to be connected; by searching academic papers. They have developed a program which scans titles and abstracts of papers in a publicly available database for the names of genes, and determines genes' probable connectedness by whether their names appear in papers together, and which other keywords appear. As such they have made a step towards extracting patterns from the ever-growing "biobibliome", or body of published papers in biology.

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