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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard D. Hull, Orlando, FL (US);
Eugene M. Fluder, Jr., Hamilton Square, NJ (US);
Suresh B. Singh, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ; G06N 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ; G06N 7/00 ;
Abstract
An extension of the vector space model for computing chemical similarity using textual and chemical descriptors is described. The method uses a chemical and/or textual description of a molecule/chemical and a decomposes a molecule/chemical descriptor matrix by a suitable technique such as singular value decomposition to create a low dimensional representation of the original descriptor space. Similarities between a user probe and the textual and/or chemical descriptors are then computed and ranked.