Patent Document ID: 20130268474
Application ID: 13667575
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of providing a description of a variant in a patient's genome, the method comprising: receiving genetic data relating to the individual, the data representing at least a first mutation and a second mutation; retrieving from one or more computer-readable storage devices a first variant object comprising a description of the first mutation as a first variant of a reference and a second variant object comprising a description of the second mutation as a second variant of the reference, each of the first and second variant objects being an instance of an abstract class of a genomic feature; determining a relationship between the first and second mutations; retrieving a third object comprising a description of the relationship, the third object also being an instance of the abstract class; and providing a description of the variant based on the third object, wherein each object inherits a start position attribute from the abstract class.