A start-up company that has developed machine-learning algorithms designed to detect patterns in large datasets launched this week in San Francisco.
Pattern Computer has developed the Pattern Discovery Engine, which it believes will offer customers insight into high-order correlations that can reveal previously hidden information. The company calls its technology a sort of "microscope" for identifying and testing new and promising hypotheses as part of research into persistent medical and scientific problems.
One of the earliest applications of the Pattern Discovery Engine is in breast cancer prognosis. The company has been working on determining prognoses and the best treatment paths for patients in cooperation with James (Ben) Brown, PhD, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and also the University of Birmingham in the U.K.
While the company's algorithms have first been applied in medical research, Pattern Computer claims its technology can be used in practically any discipline.
