Oh, Google. I remember the days before your name became a verb associated with mild stalking. The days long ago when you were just the weird alternative to Yahoo! for email and internet queries. How far you’ve come – pervasive in every part of my life.
Maybe it’s about time you get used a little more for the science world. Above and beyond searching for job openings for graduate students, that is. A group of researchers from Dresden University of Technology in Germany have tailored the Google PageRank algorithm to better be able to predict clinical prognosis for pancreatic cancer patients. Their work is published in the May issue of PLoS Computational Biology.
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” That phrase has followed me my entire life. It is my mother’s favorite movie. It is my wife’s favorite movie. I transferred ownership from one woman to another, and Dirty Dancing followed me.
