BIOLOGICAL DATA STRUCTURE HAVING MULTI-LATERAL, MULTI-SCALAR, AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MOLECULAR FEATURES AND OTHER DATA

摘要

A computer system maintains a biological data structure having molecular feature data. The system receives data elements indicating biological molecular features and knowledge elements that represent biological concepts. The system individually associates unique identifiers with the elements. For individual elements, the system maintains an internal element set of the other unique identifiers for the other elements that are directly associated with that one individual element. For the individual elements, the system maintains an external element set of the other unique identifiers for the other elements that have that one individual element in their own internal element sets. Although not required, the computer system may process a query indicating a search scope and a molecular feature for an individual biological entity, and responsively process the molecular feature and the elements based on the search scope to induce a knowledge sub-graph for the individual biological entity.

主权项

1. A method of operating a computer system to maintain a biological data structure having molecular feature data, the method comprising:
receiving data elements indicating biological molecular features and receiving knowledge elements that represent biological concepts; individually associating unique identifiers with the elements; for individual ones of the elements, maintaining an internal element set of the other unique identifiers for the other elements that are directly associated with that one individual element; and for the individual ones of the elements, maintaining an external element set of the other unique identifiers for the other elements that have that one individual element in their own internal element sets.