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Pathways were scored using NetSearch's 'sumprob' scoring metric: Assuming N proteins total and a partitioning of proteins into k clusters C 1 , C 2 ,..
In September, NASA lost its Climate Orbiter, which either crashed or skipped off into space after a failure to convert navigational instructions from English to metric units sent the Orbiter fatally close to the Red Planet.
(This is not the only simple mistake leading to a big one in the news today: the papers all cover NASA's admission that the reason the Mars Orbiter was lost last week was that some engineers did calculations for the mission using pounds and feet, while others used the metric system.)
Last week, NASA revealed the cause: One part of the orbiter's navigation system was speaking in English units and another in metric.
We used a relatively simple metric to define similarity among the annotation data.