New search engine can be used for creative discovery

When you ask a supercomputer to tell a story, you might not expect a creative outcome - or any. But a group of Virginia Tech researchers are using System X, the university's supercomputer, to test a new search program that can tell the stories of life - the connections between gene sets, for instance, or the connections between discoveries reported in biomedical articles on the U.S. National Library of Medicine PubMed database.