In an effort to actually decrease the barrier for entry I'm working on a quick example function for predicting the dataset. I'm hoping to have it posted in a day or so. I'm actually defending my PhD thesis within the next few weeks so I'm kinda pressed for time. btw: This is Will Dampier, I'm hosting this competition at Kaggle.com

A small typo, its actually "Drexel University" in the Philadelphia Area

The algorithm will be published as an open-source paper ... likely BMC Bioinformatics but I guess that depends on any number of factors. btw. This is Will Dampier, I'm hosting the competition with Kaggle.com and Drexel University