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Generalizable method

Posted by dsingh on 09 Jan 2007 at 21:20 GMT

Our approach can be directly applied to an array of diverse problems including those encountered in molecular biology, ecology, economics, politics, and sociology.
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The possibility of applying such a method to data heavy problems is quite fascinating. I am particularly interested in seeing if one can feed the method a large data set and see what kind of predictions can be made, either from disparate omics data or from business data