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GRASE, a database inference search engine developed by RIKEN BASE in 2007, has been issued a US Patent. GRASE works by simulating the brain's inference mechanism and is used in Positional MEDLINE (PosMed), a web search engine that prioritises disease-associated genes, where it has contributed to many successful examples for life science research.

For details on GRASE, see following website

• Press release (in Japanese)
  http://www.riken.go.jp/r-world/info/release/press/2008/080319/detail.html
• PosMed (in Japanese)
  http://www.riken.jp/r-world/info/release/press/2009/090713/index.html