Autonomous data mining
First Claim
1. A method includingaccessing information about a plurality of gene expression values;
- generating from said information a hypothesized relationship about genes relative to said information from a relationship between one or more sets of said gene expression values, said hypothesized relationship having a likelihood of being due to chance not exceeding a predetermined value;
retrieving data regarding interests of each agent of a plurality of agents;
identifying at least one agent of the plurality of agents such that the data regarding interests of said at least one agent satisfies at least one predetermined test indicating that said at least one agent has a potential interest in the hypothesized relationship; and
sending information about said hypothesized relationship to said at least one agent.
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Abstract
The invention provides a method and system for performing data mining autonomously with regard to a set of data, and formulating hypotheses in response thereto. An autonomous software element (a) collects sets of data, along with collateral data, into a unified extensible database; (b) formulates possibly interesting hypotheses with regard to those data; (c) evaluates hypotheses, thus relating each hypothesis against a probability it could have occurred by chance; (d) rates each hypothesis in response to multiple factors; (e) reports those hypotheses to users, selecting those users who are most likely to be interested and who are most interested in being informed.
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35 Claims
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1. A method including
accessing information about a plurality of gene expression values; -
generating from said information a hypothesized relationship about genes relative to said information from a relationship between one or more sets of said gene expression values, said hypothesized relationship having a likelihood of being due to chance not exceeding a predetermined value;
retrieving data regarding interests of each agent of a plurality of agents;
identifying at least one agent of the plurality of agents such that the data regarding interests of said at least one agent satisfies at least one predetermined test indicating that said at least one agent has a potential interest in the hypothesized relationship; and
sending information about said hypothesized relationship to said at least one agent. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. Apparatus including
memory recording information about a plurality of gene expression values; -
an autonomous software element disposed on a computing device, said autonomous software element having access to said memory;
said memory recording information about a hypothesized relationship between said gene expression values, said hypothesized relationship having the properties of (1) having a likelihood of being due to chance not exceeding a predetermined value, and (2) satisfying at least one predetermined test indicating that said hypothesized relationship is of potential interest to at least one agent; and
a communication link coupled to said memory and capable of sending information about said hypothesized relationship to said at least one agent. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A memory recording information including instructions, said instructions interpretable by a computing device, said instructions including
an autonomous software element having access to information about a plurality of gene expression values; -
a first software element coupled to said information and capable of generating a hypothesized relationship between said gene expression values, said hypothesized relationship having the properties of (1) having a likelihood of being due to chance not exceeding a predetermined value, and (2) satisfying at least one predetermined test indicating that said hypothesized relationship is of potential interest to at least one agent other than said autonomous software element;
a second software element coupled to information about said hypothesized relationship and capable of sending information about said hypothesized relationship to said at least one agent. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method including
accessing information about a set of genes and proteins; -
generating from said information a hypothesized relationship involving at least one of the following;
a set of proteins, SNPs and chemicals pertaining to said information, said hypothesized relationship relative to said information and having a likelihood of being due to chance not exceeding a predetermined value;
retrieving data regarding interests of each agent of a plurality of agents;
identifying at least one agent of the plurality of agents such that the data regarding interests of said at least one agent satisfies at least one predetermined test indicating that said at least one agent has a potential interest in the hypothesized relationship; and
sending information about said hypothesized relationship to said at least one agent. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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