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Software Finds Plagiarism In Research

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the grant-revoked dept.

shmG writes "Researchers from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute have created a seek-and-destroy program — for plagiarism. Called ET Blast, it's designed to find plagiarism in scientific papers. It does a full-text analysis, and then looks for similar publications in several databases. 'We have better literature,' Garner said. 'There are abstracts and full papers, and a database called Crisp, where you compare stuff to every grant the NIH gets. It's compared to any research that's been funded.'"

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  1. That's all fine and good, but... by TubeSteak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... can it find dupes on Slashdot?

     

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