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=== Harvard Medical School ===

In 2013 it was reported that researchers from [[Harvard Medical School]], [[Harvard Business School]], and [[London Business School]] successfully used Topcoder Community to solve complex biological problems.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130207141448.htm|title=Solving big-data bottleneck: Scientists team with business innovators to tackle research hurdles|last=|first=|date=February 7, 2013|work=Science News|access-date=April 30, 2018}}</ref> Researchers say that Topcoder competitors approached bilogybiology-related [[Big data|big-data]] challenge, and managed to create a more accurate and 1000 times faster alternative of [[BLAST|BLAST algorithm]].<ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Lakhani KR, Boudreau KJ, Loh PR, Backstrom L, Baldwin C, Lonstein E, Lydon M, McCormack A, Arnaout RA, Guinan EC|date=February 7, 2013|title=Prize-based contests can provide solutions to computational biology problems|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.2495|journal=Nature Biotechnology|volume=31|pages=108 - 111|doi=10.1038/nbt.2495|via=|pmc=4527172}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Eisenstein|first=Michael|date=July 9, 2013|title=Crowdsourced contest identifies best-in-class breast cancer prognostic|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0713-578b|journal=Nature Biotechnology|volume=31|pages=578 - 580|doi=10.1038/nbt0713-578b|via=}}</ref>

=== IBM ===