Georgia Tech develops computational algorithm to assist in cancer treatments ( Georgia Institute of Technology ) Georgia Tech has created a new data analysis algorithm that quickly transforms complex RNA sequence data into usable content for biologists and clinicians. Scientists will be able to more readily use this data to compare the RNA profiles or "transcriptomes" of normal cells with those of individual cancers and thereby be in a better position to develop ...
Carnegie Mellon scientist wins international award for computational biology ( Carnegie Mellon University ) The International Society for Computational Biology has awarded its Overton Prize for outstanding accomplishment to Ziv Bar-Joseph, associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Lane Center for Computational Biology and Machine Learning Department. The Overton Prize is awarded annually to an early- to mid-career scientist who has made a significant ...
Pac-Man Proved NP-Hard By Computational Complexity Theory The classic '80s arcade game turns out to be equivalent to the travelling salesman problem, according a new analysis of the computational complexity of video games In the last few years, a few dedicated mathematicians have begun to study the computational complexity of video games. Their goal is to determine the inherent difficulty of the games and how they might be related to each other and ...