Recent Patents in Bioinformatics, October — November 2011

Nov 11, 2011

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US Patent 8,050,870. Identifying associations using graphical models. Inventors: David Heckerman, Jonathan Carlson, Carl Kadie. Assignee: Microsoft

Describes a statistical method for identifying associations between variables in biological data. It includes a model builder that uses information about the variables to generate a set of models; and an association identifier that assesses the strength of the association between the variables in question.

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