Word: predictive
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GeneFormatics of San Diego, Calif., for instance, uses bioinformatic algorithms to help drug companies predict the function of proteins encoded by newly discovered genes. It does this by comparing the new proteins to proteins of known structure, generating a "fuzzy" picture of what each looks like. That, in turn, suggests what their biochemical function may be-and how best to shut them down...
...kingmaking - and -breaking - role in the fractious legislature, and that's powerful leverage for a minority party. But polls indicate that it would lose between four and six seats to Likud in a parliamentary election right now. Both parties draw support primarily from immigrants from Arab countries, and analysts predict that in an election focused almost exclusively on peace and security issues, there'd be a stampede of voters from the religious party back to the secular nationalists...
Luckily, I have managed to stay abreast of the next most important presidential race of the year 2000. At midnight tonight, Harvard will have its next Undergraduate Council President. Those of you who didn't ignore the fas% prompt (I predict a staggering 30 percent of the student body) will have just participated in enlarging the Harvard bureacracy--that same bureacracy we spend most of our undergraduate careers complaining bitterly about...
...confident Jessie will be drafted tomorrow," Zotter said. "There's no way to predict who's going to be selected when. There were players projected in the first and second rounds who still haven't been picked...
Some judicial observers are trying to predict how the Court will rule based on their questions during oral arguments Friday...