Patent ID: 8849577

Claim:
A method for identifying biochemical pathways affected by an agent comprising: obtaining a small molecule profile of a sample from an assay treated with said agent, said small molecule profile comprising information regarding at least ten small molecules including identification information for the at least ten small molecules; comparing said small molecule profile to a standard small molecule profile; identifying components of said small molecule profile affected by said agent; identifying one or more biochemical pathways associated with said identified components by mapping said identified components to the one or more biochemical pathways using a collection of data describing a plurality of biochemical pathways and an analysis facility executing on a processor of a computing device, thus identifying biochemical pathways affected by said agent, wherein the plurality of biochemical pathways includes the one or more identified biochemical pathways associated with the identified components and a plurality of non-identified biochemical pathways; and storing information regarding each identified biochemical pathway and an identified component or identified components mapped to the identified biochemical pathway for each identified biochemical pathway.