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One of NRC-IITs areas of expertise is data mining, which describes a mathematical process to discover previously unknown knowledge hidden in huge amounts of information. Another is machine learning - shorthand for computers programmed to efficiently crunch through huge masses of historical and online data, sometimes without human guidance, searching for patterns. NRC software reports the patterns to handlers, but also uses them to reprogram itself to search even more efficiently. It can rifle through information from many sources - for example, text records that describe a tumour sample's source, type, and how it has developed - then link all of these to proteins that researchers have found in the sample.
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