IBM, New York Genome Center prep Watson prototype

Summary: The collaboration, one of many IBM is planning to widen cognitive computing's footprint, will be the first Watson implementation for genomic research.

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The collaboration, one of many IBM is planning to widen cognitive computing's footprint, will be the first Watson implementation for genomic research.

Under the partnership:

Ultimately, IBM wants to use the Watson prototype for a clinical study by the New York Genome Center. The software and analytics tools have been under development for the past decade at IBM Research's Computational Biology Center.

The New York Genome Center specializes in experimental design, genome sequencing, bioinformatics and the computing and data storage infrastructure to crunch the data.

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