Patent ID: 7340485
Filing Date: 2008-03-04
Classification: G06Q,G16B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An information management system (IMS) for managing biochemical information, the IMS comprising: a server and a database, means for storing in the database said biochemical information as variable data sets, wherein each variable data set comprises: a variable value matrix containing variable values organized as rows and columns; a row description list, in a variable description language, of the rows in the variable value matrix; a column description list, in the variable description language, of the columns in the variable value matrix; and a fixed dimension description, in the variable description language, of one or more fixed dimensions that are common to all values in the variable value matrix, wherein the server comprises a file system and the variable value matrix is addressable via the file system, independently of the row description list, column description list or fixed dimension description and the variable description language comprises variable expressions, each variable expression comprising one or more pairs of keyword and name; and the IMS further comprises a table having an entry for each permissible keyword, and the IMS further comprises means for storing compound variable expressions, each compound variable expression comprising two or more variable expressions separated by operators, functions or operators and functions.