Ricardo E Castro

US Patent:

20200286623, Sep 10, 2020

Filed:

Sep 14, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/645077

Inventors:

- Rockville MD, US
Jessica Richman - San Francisco CA, US
Daniel Almonacid - San Francisco CA, US
Patricio Lagos - San Francisco CA, US
Ricardo Castro - San Francisco CA, US
Paz Tapia - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G16H 50/30
C12Q 1/689
G16B 20/00
G16H 50/20

Abstract:

Embodiments of a method and/or system, such as for characterizing at least one microorganism-related condition, can include: determining a set of associations (e.g., positive associations such as positive correlations, negative associations such as negative correlations, non-associations such as no correlation or minimal correlation, etc.) between a set of microorganism taxa and at least one microorganism-related condition; determining a set of reference features (e.g., reference abundance ranges, etc.) for the set of microorganism taxa; and determining one or more significance index metrics based on the set of associations and the set of reference features.