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BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists are using a supercomputer to test a search program that can report connections between discoveries reported in biomedical articles.

The Virginia Tech University researchers are using System X, the university's supercomputer, to test the program that searches articles on the U.S. National Library of Medicine's PubMed database.

The researchers created a search capability called "Storytelling" that finds connections between apparently dissimilar information.

"The stories are pieced together by analyzing large volumes of text or other data" said Naren Ramakrishnan, associate professor of computer science who helped the create software. He said the aim is to help scientists make connections in the complex, burgeoning world of scientific discovery.

The research was described in KDD-2006 Conference.

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