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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2001
David J. Balaban, San Rafael, CA (US);
Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A filter table provides a framework in which queries are efficiently and easily developed to access a gene expression database. The filter table is used to filter a plurality of expression levels to return a reduced set of expression levels, which may be further queried to provide more specific results. Using the filtering and querying provided one can easily identify genes or expressed sequence tags whose expression correlates to particular tissue types. Various tissue types may correspond to different diseases, states of disease progression, different organs, different species, etc. Researchers may now use large-scale gene expression databases to full advantage.