US Patent:
20070168135, Jul 19, 2007
Inventors:
Pankaj Agarwal - King of Prussia PA, US
William Reisdorf Jr - King of Prussia PA, US
Sujoy Ghosh - Durham NC, US
Vinod Kumar - King of Prussia PA, US
Mark Hurle - King of Prussia PA, US
Karen Kabnick - King of Prussia PA, US
Paul McAllister - King of Prussia PA, US
David Searls - King of Prussia PA, US
Kay Tatsuoka - King of Prussia PA, US
Liwen Liu - Durham NC, US
Michal Magid-Slav - King of Prussia PA, US
Dmitri Zaykin - Raleigh NC, US
International Classification:
G06F 19/00
Abstract:
A method of identifying a relationship between a set of one or more candidate biomolecules and a set of one or more reference biomolecules, the method including inputting to a computer a query set describing the one or more candidate biomolecules; comparing the query set with a target database describing the one or more reference biomolecules wherein the one or more reference biomolecules grouped into one or more buckets and wherein the one or more reference biomolecules of each bucket share a common property; counting a number of matches between each query set and each buckets of the target database; and statistically analyzing the number of matches to each bucket wherein the presence of a statistically significant match identifies a relationship between a the query set and a bucket of the target database.