Claims
- 1. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon:
an item table listing a plurality of item records identifying items; an item attribute table listing a plurality of item attribute records identifying attributes of said items; and wherein there is a many-to-many relationship between item records and item attribute records.
- 2. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein an item attribute item map table implements said many-to-many relationship between item records and item attribute records, said item attribute item map table listing a plurality of map records identifying both a particular item attribute and a particular item.
- 3. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 having further stored thereon:
an item derivation table listing a plurality of item derivation records identifying transformations between ones of said items used in biological analysis.
- 4. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 3 having further stored thereon:
a protocol table listing a plurality of protocol records specifying parameters of said transformation.
- 5. The computer-readable storage medium wherein said items are used in a biological analysis.
- 6. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein said biological analysis comprises a polymorphism analysis.
- 7. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon:
an atom result table listing a plurality of atom result records, specifying relative wild-type and mutant sequence concentrations in targets; and a subject sequence position table listing a plurality of subject sequence position records, specifying combinations of subjects from whom said targets are derived and sequence positions, each said atom result record being associated with one or more atom result records.
- 8. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7 wherein said atom result records further specify upper and lower bounds for said concentrations.
- 9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7 having further stored thereon:
a subject table listing subject records specifying said subjects.
- 10. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon:
a polymorphism table listing polymorphism sequence records specifying sequences known to contain polymorphisms; and a patent application table listing patent application records specifying one or more polymorphisms specified by said polymorphism sequence records.
- 11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 wherein said polymorphism sequence records specify for each one of said polymorphisms a polymorphism position, a reference allele, and a base allele.
- 12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein said polymorphism sequence records further specify for each one of said polymorphisms a measured heterozygocity.
- 13. A computer-implemented method comprising:
creating n item table listing a plurality of item records identifying items used in biological analysis; and creating an item attribute table listing a plurality of item attribute records identifying attributes of said items; and wherein there is a many-to-many relationship between item records and item attribute records.
- 14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 further comprising the step of:
creating an item attribute item map table implements said many-to-many relationship between item records and item attribute records, said item attribute item map table listing a plurality of map records identifying both a particular item attribute and a particular item.
- 15. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 comprising: an item derivation table listing a plurality of item derivation records identifying transformations between ones of said items used in biological analysis.
- 16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15 further comprising:
creating a protocol table listing a plurality of protocol records specifying parameters of said transformation.
- 17. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 wherein said biological analysis comprises a polymorphism analysis.
- 18. A computer-implemented method comprising:
creating an atom result table listing a plurality of atom result records, specifying relative wild-type and mutant sequence concentrations in targets; and creating a subject sequence position table listing a plurality of subject sequence position records, specifying combinations of subjects from whom said targets are derived and sequence positions, each said atom result record being associated with one or more atom result records.
- 19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 wherein said atom result records further specify upper and lower bounds for said concentrations.
- 20. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 further comprising:
creating a subject table listing subject records specifying said subjects.
- 21. A computer-implemented method comprising:
creating a polymorphism table listing polymorphism sequence records specifying sequences known to contain polymorphisms; and creating a patent application table listing patent application records specifying one or more polymorphisms specified by said polymorphism sequence records.
- 22. The computer-implemented method of claim 21 wherein said polymorphism sequence records specify for each one of said polymorphisms a polymorphism position, a reference allele, and a base allele.
- 23. The computer-implemented method of claim 22 wherein said polymorphism sequence records further specify for at least one of said polymorphisms a measured heterozygocity.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The present application claims priority from U.S. Prov. App. No. 60/053,842 filed Jul. 25, 1997, entitled COMPREHENSIVE BIO-INFORMATICS DATABASE, from U.S. Prov. App. No. 60/069,198 filed on Dec. 11, 1997, entitled COMPREHENSIVE DATABASE FOR BIOINFORMATICS, and from U.S. Prov. App. No. 60/069,436, entitled GENE EXPRESSION AND EVALUATION SYSTEM, filed on Dec. 11, 1997. The contents of all three provisional applications are herein incorporated by reference.
[0002] The subject matter of the present application is related to the subject matter of the following three co-assigned applications filed on the same day as the present application. GENE EXPRESSION AND EVALUATION SYSTEM (Attorney Docket No. 018547-035010), METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A BIOINFORMATICS DATABASE (Attorney Docket No. 018547-033810), METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PROBE ARRAY CHIP DESIGN DATABASE (Attorney Docket No. 018547-033830). The contents of these three applications are herein incorporated by reference.
Provisional Applications (3)
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Number |
Date |
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60053842 |
Jul 1997 |
US |
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60069198 |
Dec 1997 |
US |
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60069436 |
Dec 1997 |
US |
Continuations (1)
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Number |
Date |
Country |
Parent |
09122169 |
Jul 1998 |
US |
Child |
10219021 |
Aug 2002 |
US |