Software Finds Plagiarism In Research 111
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.'"
Shocking plagiarism already found (Score:2, Funny)
They found a research paper on hydrogen stole 2 thirds from an existing paper on water.
Re:Red faces all round then.... (Score:3, Funny)
Is this where the author of something passes it off as his own? I agree, that's a terrible thing.