Patent ID: 8498879

Claim:
A computerized method of analyzing immunological and other information pertaining to a population of individuals, comprising: (a) establishing a database comprising a plurality of records of information each record comprising one or more fields, where each such field contains: (1) the results of one or more assays for the presence of a biochemical, or (2) individual-specific information comprising one or more of said individual's medical history, doctors' observations of said individual and/or historical, demographic, lifestyle, and familial information relating to said individual; (b) segmenting the population by commonality as to values in one or more of the fields; (c) as to each segment: automatically processing the information in said segment of the database to find a first set of correlations between clusters of two or more fields of records within each segment of individuals in the population; (d) automatically processing each correlation to generate a second set of correlations; and (e) for each correlation in the second set: for each field in the cluster, automatically generating a set of hypotheses or other relevant data that may explain the correlation; and (f) reporting the second set of correlations, their associated hypotheses and related information to a user, wherein the segmenting, processing, and generating steps are performed using a data processor.