For information on the search mechanism see <a href="http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/eureqa" rel="nofollow">http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/eureqa</a><p>See also the <i>Science</i> article: Schmidt M., Lipson H. (2009) "Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data," Science, Vol. 324, no. 5923, pp. 81 - 85.<p>I must be prejudiced but I am shocked to find that the download is Windows only. Under Linux you need to run it under Wine. Hard to believe that any serious research system would make that choice. Native versions for the MAC and Linux are on their wish list but there is no roadmap. They do have a binary version for use in clusters.<p>There are bindings for many programming environments including Mathematica and Python.<p>The Eureqa system does not appear to be open source.