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In May last year, a supercomputer in San Jose, California, read 100,000 research papers in 2 hours. It found completely new biology hidden in the data. Called KnIT, the computer is one of a handful of systems pushing back the frontiers of knowledge without human help.
KnIT didn't read the papers like a scientist – that would have taken a lifetime. Instead, it scanned for information on a protein called p53, and a class of enzymes that can interact with it, called kinases. Also known as "the guardian of the genome", p53 suppresses tumors in humans. KnIT trawled the literature searching for links that imply undiscovered p53 kinases, which could provide routes to new cancer drugs.
Having analyzed papers up until 2003, KnIT identified seven of the nine kinases discovered over the subsequent 10 years. More importantly, it also found what appeared to be two p53 kinases unknown to science. Initial lab tests confirmed the findings, although the team wants to repeat the experiment to be sure.
(Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Sunday August 31 2014, @07:50AM
System to Automate Reasoning, Hypothesis Generation:
http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/08/26/2351257 [soylentnews.org]
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @08:19AM
You are absolutely right.
But that summary was so dry that my eyes glazed over halfway through. I'm sure it is meaningful to an expert in the field, but we can't all be experts in the fields of all posted stories. A little story-telling goes a long way.