Patent Document ID: 20140214391
Application ID: 14167709
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for identifying biological molecules to affect a desired activity, the method comprising: (a) receiving sequence and activity data for a plurality of biological molecules; (b) preparing a base model from the sequence and activity data, wherein the base model predicts activity as a function of the presence or absence of sub-units of the sequence; (c) preparing at least one new model by adding or subtracting at least one new interaction term to or from the base model, wherein the new interaction term represents the interaction between two or more interacting sub-units; (d) determining the ability of the at least one new model to predict activity as a function of the presence or absence of the sub-units; and (e) determining whether to add or subtract the new interaction term to or from the base model based on the ability of the at least one new model to predict activity as determined in (d) and with a bias against including additional interaction terms.