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Syntactic tagging in a domain-specific context

  • US 10,204,151 B2
  • Filed: 06/10/2015
  • Issued: 02/12/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for computationally determining navigational associations within an n-dimensional database, the method comprising:

  • electronically storing a set of data entities in a database system, wherein the data entities represent elements of a biological system;

    wherein one or more elements of the biological system comprise an organ system, a tissue, a cell, a genetic sequence, or a component thereof serving a common function;

    electronically storing a computerized representation of a biological system syntax, wherein the biological system syntax can be an input to an algorithm executed on a computer processor to validate or generate a finite combination of the data entities;

    electronically assigning syntactic tags to the data entities in a logical data model based on biological attributes of the elements of the biological system represented by the data entities;

    wherein the logical data model comprises at least two fields ordered by a set of interrelationships among at least two elements of the biological system, the interrelationships corresponding to functional properties in a biological domain, and wherein the biological attributes comprise type, position, or expression of one or more elements of the biological system;

    wherein one or more of the data entities represent one or more nodes or a property of a set of nodes, wherein a node represents a syntactic tag that has a range of values represented as coordinates in n-dimensional space with successive specialization of the functional properties as represented in the logical data model, wherein specialization is represented by a position of a tag in the syntactic structure;

    wherein a set of connections among the nodes represents a set of the interrelationships corresponding to functional properties in the biological domain;

    wherein the syntax describes a dimension in the n-dimensional space associated with a set of the elements of the biological system, wherein the finite combination of data entities describes a dimension which consists of regions and subregions within the n-dimensional space;

    algorithmically identifying a set of syntactic positions in the n-dimensional space;

    organizing and electronically storing the set of syntactic positions for use with a navigation function which identifies a set of associations among the nodes based on their locations in n-dimensional space, wherein the set of associations represent a plurality of the interrelationships corresponding to functional properties in the biological domain;

    receiving an input query from a user, wherein the query corresponds to an attribute of the biological system; and

    electronically traversing the n-dimensional space to retrieve a result regarding an element of the biological system.

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