[dundee] U.K. Government to monitor social networking sites

[gordon dunlop]

2009/3/25 Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com>

>
> My friend worked on algorithms for discovering 'pathways' in abstract
> protein-protein interaction networks. I suggested that he patent this
> for intelligence gathering purposes, but he didn't see the point. I'm
> really thinking to start a business to apply biologically motivated
> analysis (PPI networks) to sites like Facebook.




> Now that's interesting, 3-D maps have been generated of genetic polymorphic
> populations using principal co-ordinate vectors produced from a Nei & Li
> similarity matrix representing genetic distance.
>
> http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/51/353/2075?ck=nck
>
>
  By substituting genetic polymorphism with social polymorphism a social
connection map could be produced. The only drawback
  is to accurately define a social trait and class it accordingly like what
can be done with genetic traits.

  Gordon

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