Source Newsroom: Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University) Newswise — When you ask a supercomputer to
tell a story, you might not expect a creative outcome " or any.
But a group of Virginia Tech researchers are using System X, the
university's supercomputer, to test a new search program that
can tell the stories of life " the connections between gene
sets, for instance, or the connections between discoveries
reported in biomedical articles on the U.S. National Library of
Medicine PubMed database. We are all familiar with search
engines that provide a list of hits on the terms we enter.
Researchers in computer science and biochemistry at Virginia
Tech have created a search capability that they call
Storytelling that will discover connections between information
that appears dissimilar. It discovers a sequence of events or
relationships to create a chain of concepts between specified
start and end points. Imagine, for instance, asking for a
connection from the concept "traveling in Lon