Patent ID: 6453241
Filing Date: 2002-09-17
Classification: G06F,G16B

Abstract:
A method for processing biological signal profile data for storage in a computer database and for retrieval therefrom by a user comprising the steps of:storing a plurality of biological signal profiles in said computer database in computer readable form, each said biological signal profile in said plurality of biological signal profiles comprising a plurality of data points, each data point being a measurement of a level of a cellular constituent; receiving a command from said user to initiate a comparison algorithm, said command identifying a query profile selected from among said plurality of biological signal profiles in said computer database; computing a plurality of similarity metrics, each similarity metric being computed in accordance with said comparison algorithm, between (i) data points of said query profile and (ii) corresponding data points of a different target profile selected from among said plurality of biological signal profiles stored in computer readable form in said computer database; and communicating as an ordered list said plurality of similarity metrics or said different target profiles, said ordered list being ordered by degree of correlation between said data points of said query profile and said corresponding data points of each said different target profile, thereby processing biological signal profile data for storage in said computer database and for retrieval therefrom by said user.