September 1999
Mining the Genome
The Human Genome Project piles up Everests of data. But getting new drugs out of it will require sophisticated software for sniffing out patterns--one of the most crucial tasks of the hot field known as bioinformatics.
By Antonio Regalado
Larry Hunter had just moved into his new office when a reporter visited, so the room lacked knickknacks and family snapshots. Hunter had, however, started unpacking his books, and they were already beginning to form an interesting pattern. Roger Schank's Dynamic Memory, a classic title in artificial intelligence, was shelved next to Georg Schulz's Principles of Protein Structure. Machine Learning flanked Oncogenes. Artificial Life leaned on Medical Informatics.
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