Rosetta brings two technologies to bear on sluggish drug development: chips that have been covered with a series of genes using what is essentially a modified inkjet printing process, and powerful computer algorithms that use pattern recognition technology to show how whole sets of genes are being turned on and off.

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The electronic nose is an array of nano-scale gas sensors--the maximized surface area of the nano-particles allows the most gas to pass over them--along with pattern recognition technology that can create a digital fingerprint (or noseprint, as the case may be) of specific smells.

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The electronic tongue consists of an array of liquid sensors (electrodes coated with conductive polymers) coupled to pattern-recognition technology that can distinguish particular flavors for taste studies.

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