Patent Document ID: 20020004792
Application ID: 09768686
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for measuring a strength of co-occurrence data, comprising: extracting two or more chemical or biological molecules names from a database record from an inference database, wherein the inference database includes a plurality of inference database records created from an indexed literature database, and wherein the two or more chemical or biological molecule names co-occur in one or more records in an indexed scientific literature database; determining a Likelihood statistic for a co-occurrence reflecting physico-chemical interactions between a first chemical or biological molecule name-A and a second chemical or biological molecule name-B extracted from the database record; applying the Likelihood statistic to the co-occurrence to determine if the co-occurrence between the first chemical or biological molecule-A and the second chemical or biological molecule-B is a non-trivial co-occurrence reflecting physico-chemical interactions.