BLACKSBURG, Va., April 7 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Seventy countries and thousands of researchers and citizen scientists.That's how far Virginia Tech computer science researcher Debswapna Bhattacharya's publicly available biomedical artificial intelligence (AI) platform has already spread.
From well-funded labs in the U.S. to undergraduate students in developing countries, anyone with an internet connection can, and has, run sophisticated molecular analyses using a simple, web-based platform hosted in the Department of Computer Science.
Bhattacharya recalled one inquiry he received from Africa.
"He actually started using this web server that we developed when he was an unde...