PATTERN RECOGNITION ORIENTED CLUSTER ANALYSIS

摘要

The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for evaluating sets of random objects and clustering them into groups based on predefined characteristic(s) of the objects. A group of objects are evaluated against a set of environments. The resulting data obtained is assessed by pattern recognition cluster analysis methods and apparatus to reveal objects with similar activity with the set of environments. The invention also relates to the above methods in which the group of objects is a group of chemical compounds and the set of environments is a set of bacterial mutant strains or a set of gene expressions.