Patent ID: 7603332

Claim:
A computer-based translation method that translates source information into target information using knowledge that arises from relationships between elements of the source information, comprising a plurality of activities comprising: obtaining configuration information from a computer based validated biopharmaceutical batch process control system; identifying patterns in the configuration information, inferring relationships between the patterns and corresponding domain concepts, and generating configuration information that encodes the domain concepts; based upon an automatically detected hierarchy among elements of the configuration information automatically obtaining a first transformed version of the configuration, said first transformed version of the configuration information including the generated configuration information that encodes the domain concepts; generating, via a first set of instructions encoded in DHTML, a graphical user interface based on an automatically detected hierarchy among element of the first transformed version of the configuration information; transforming the first transformed version of the configuration information using user input to obtain a second transformed version of the configuration information, the user input obtained via the graphical user interface the user input indicative that a second set of transformations will be applied to obtain the second transformed version of the configuration information; and expressing the first transformed version and the second transformed version in a destination biopharmaceutical batch process control system, the biopharmaceutical batch process control system configured by the second transformed version to control a biopharmaceutical batch process.