Patent ID: 8000900

Claim:
Computer-executable instructions for performing a method of forecasting a portion of a target molecule anticipated to influence an organism's condition, the computer-executable instructions stored on computer-readable storage media, the method comprising: employing population data to automatically analyze one or more areas of the target molecule to determine the portion of the target molecule anticipated to influence the organism's condition, the population data pertaining to at least one relationship between at least one diverse organism trait and the target molecule, the target molecule comprising an HLA or an MHC molecule and the organism's condition being Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV); building a plurality of patches from sequence data by iteratively increasing a size of a patch while decreasing an associated free energy of the patch; utilizing the plurality of patches to generate an epitome most likely to target or identify the organism's condition, the epitome being a sequence that includes some or all of subsequences from the set of sequence data; and employing a cost function that measures a similarity of the sequence data with an estimate of the epitome.