1. An information management system [=“IMS”] for managing biochemical information, the IMS comprising: a server and a database, wherein the database comprises said biochemical information as variable data sets, wherein each variable data set comprises: a variable value matrix containing variable values organized as rows and columns; a row description list, in a variable description language, of the rows in the variable value matrix; a column description list, in the variable description language, of the columns in the variable value matrix; and a fixed dimension description, in the variable description language, of one or more fixed dimensions that are common to all values in the variable value matrix.