Patent Document ID: 20050119837
Application ID: 10967085
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for using a computational system for computing an affinity function between two or more molecular subsets of a molecular configuration comprising: assigning to the molecular subsets one or more molecular descriptors associated with the molecular configuration, wherein each molecular descriptor represents a molecular subset; storing molecular descriptor data associated with the molecular configuration; using a plurality of calculation means representing one or more affinity processing engines dedicated to the calculation of one or more affinity components for a molecular configuration, wherein each engine includes one or more processing pipelines; using a plurality of data paths connecting the descriptor data storage to the plurality of calculation means for the transmission of molecular descriptor data to the plurality of calculation means; using a data path allocation means for the allocation of molecular descriptor data to the plurality of data paths; and using an accumulation means that accumulates affinity function values based on affinity component results generated by the plurality of calculation means.