Patent ID: 7213034
Filing Date: 2007-05-01
Classification: G06F,G16C,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for processing experimental data according to an object model, the method comprising: providing an object model for representing experiments performed in a laboratory data management system, the object model including a first pre-defined experiment class that can be instantiated to define one or more experiment objects that represent data for particular experiments performed in the laboratory data management system, the first pre-defined experiment class having an associated variable definition template defining a plurality of variable types that can be used to represent data from experiments performed in the laboratory data management system, the first pre-defined experiment class being configurable to represent a plurality of different types of experiments performed by the laboratory data management system based on different sets of variable definitions; receiving input specifying a first set of one or more variable definitions defining a set of variables for a first experiment type to be represented by one or more instances of the first pre-defined experiment class, the variables in the set of variables having types selected from the plurality of variable types defined in the variable definition template; receiving data from an experiment of the first experiment type, the data including a plurality of values corresponding to variables defined in the first set of variable definitions; storing a first representation of the data from the experiment of the first experiment type in a format defined according to the plurality of variable types; and presenting a second representation of the data from the experiment of the first experiment type, the second representation being derived from the first representation and being presented in a format defined according to the first set of variable definitions.