Researchers Use Google Algorithm to Determine Biomarkers in Cancer
Posted by Justin on May 18th, 2012
German researchers have utilized the strategy behind PageRank, the revolutionary Google algorithm which finds relevant search results to determine critical cancerous biomarkers.
The results could facilitate earlier understanding of how aggressive the cancer is and lead to more accurate treatments.
Finding these biomarkers is often difficult and time consuming. Another problem is that markers found in different studies for the same types of cancer almost never overlap.
This problem has been circumvented using the Google strategy, which takes into account the content of a web page and also how these pages are connected via hyperlinks. With this strategy as the model, the authors made use of the fact that proteins in a cell are connected through a network of physical and regulatory interactions; the ‘protein Facebook’ so to speak.
This would equate really aggressive cancers with SEO experts.
Makes sense.
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