Computer says “try this” - The Economist
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@anne (…) heads another group working on automated hypothesis generation. Her software, Méthode d’Inférence, crunches research on hormones and the 1,500 types of receptor molecules with which they interact. Sometimes, it recommends looking more closely at certain of these interactions because the literature on them contains contradictory results that need to be resolved. On other occasions it deems interactions ripe for closer examination because the hormone and receptor types involved are similar to those of known pairings that have already proved medically valuable.