In November 2012, Superfly added an experimental feature to speed up the process of plugging in frequent flyer information.

BBC: A flight search that maximizes miles

But a group of biologists led by Eivind Hovig of the Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo has managed to find a way to speed the process up, by linking together the vast quantities of disconnected biochemical information that have already been published.

ECONOMIST: A genetic paperchase