When scientists test algorithms that sort or classify data they often turn to a trusted tool called Normalized Mutual ...

Researchers from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center are teaming up to evaluate the tools used to probe the cancer genome. Eduard Porta-Pardo, a senior researcher in the Life Sciences Department at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about fitness, health and wearable tech Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They ...

As organizations increasingly replace human decision-making with algorithms, they may assume these computer programs lack our biases. But algorithms still reflect the real world, which means they can ...

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) has undertaken the first-ever comparative analysis of a newly emerging category of algorithms that mine genetic information in cancer databases ...