Patent ID: 6839635

Claim:
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 cellular constituent; computing a plurality of similarity metrics, each similarity metric being computed in accordance with said comparison algorithm, between (i) a query gene signal profile comprising data points of said query cellular constituent in said plurality of biological signal profiles and (ii) a different target gene signal profile comprising data points of a different target cellular constituent in said plurality of biological signal profiles stored in computer readable form in said computer database; and communicating said plurality of similarity metrics as an ordered list of similarity metrics, said ordered list of similarity metrics being ordered by degree of correlation between said query gene signal profile and each said different target gene signal profile, thereby processing biological signal profile data for storage in said computer database and for retrieval therefrom by said user.