Patent ID: 9311360
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: G06F,G16B

Claim Text:
1. A method for associating data with a target biological sequence, comprising: searching one or more storage devices in a network for at least one of a pointer and an address indicating a location of data or providing information regarding the data; the data comprising at least one of a document, an analysis tool and biological information; identifying, in the network, one or more pointers or addresses, among the at least one of the pointer and the address, pointing to or addressing data having a relevance level to a biological sequence that is greater than a predetermined threshold; based on determining that the relevance level of the data is greater than the predetermined threshold, associating, by a processor, each of the at least one pointer and the address to one or more probe sequences corresponding to a segment of the biological sequence to which the data pertains; associating the one or more probe sequences with at least one of the document, the analysis tool and the biological information; ranking, by the processor, the one or more probe sequences based on one or more criteria, the ranking of the one or more probe sequences comprising determining a similarity between each probe sequence and the biological sequence to which the pointer or address pertains; the ranking of the one or more probe sequences further comprising at least one of determining an importance of a source of each pointer or address, determining a popularity of each pointer or address, and determining a historical applicability of each pointer or address to the biological sequence to which the pointer or address pertains; the determining of the similarity between each pointer or address and the biological sequence to which the pointer or address pertains includes determining a match between each pointer or address a complement of the biological sequence; the determining of an importance of a source of each pointer or address includes at least one of determining a number of citations of an author of the document, determining an organization to which an author of the document belongs, and determining a type of analysis performed by the analysis tool; determining a popularity of each reference by at least one of determining a number of citations of the document and a frequency of use of the analysis tool; determining a historical applicability of each reference to the biological sequence to which the pointer or address pertains by at least one of determining a frequency with which the document has been cited in association with the biological sequence and determining a frequency with which the analysis tool has been used to analyze the biological sequence; and assigning, by the processor, the one or more probe sequences with a level of affinity to a segment of the target biological sequence based at least on the ranking of each pointer or address among the one or more pointers or addresses.