Take Two Algorithms and Call Me in the Morning NVIDIA Blog

Three, it turns out, is better than one. At least that's how it worked for a trio of former rivals who teamed up to claim the just-announced top prize in this year's Data Science Bowl. The fourth annual event focused on one of healthcare's most pressing problems -- the soaring cost and time needed to discover new drugs. A record-setting 18,000 participants battled over 90 days to deliver a deep learning algorithm to accelerate a crucial step in the drug-discovery pipeline: identifying the nucleus of each cell. This year's Data Science Bowl was "driven by a very real need to develop new treatments faster and more accurately," said Anne Carpenter, director of the imaging platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the nonprofit partner for the contest.