Data mining platform for knowledge discovery from heterogeneous data types and/or heterogeneous data sources
US7921068B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 30, 2007 |
| Grant date | Apr 5, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 9, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG16B50/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The data mining platform comprises a plurality of system modules, each formed from a plurality of components. Each module has an input data component, a data analysis engine for processing the input data, an output data component for outputting the results of the data analysis, and a web server to access and monitor the other modules within the unit and to provide communication to other units. Each module processes a different type of data, for example, a first module processes microarray (gene expression) data while a second module processes biomedical literature on the Internet for information supporting relationships between genes and diseases and gene functionality. In the preferred embodiment, the data analysis engine is a kernel-based learning machine, and in particular, one or more support vector machines (SVMs). The data analysis engine includes a pre-processing function for feature selection, for reducing the amount of data to be processed by selecting the optimum number of attributes, or “features”, relevant to the information to be discovered.
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