Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120164630 | METHODS FOR MAINTAINING THE INTEGRITY AND IDENTIFICATION OF A NUCLEIC ACID TEMPLATE IN A MULTIPLEX SEQUENCING REACTION - The invention generally relates to methods for maintaining the integrity and identification of a nucleic acid template in a multiplex sequencing reaction. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve obtaining a template nucleic acid, incorporating a pair of sequence identifiers into the template, and sequencing the template. | 06-28-2012 |
20120252686 | METHODS FOR MAINTAINING THE INTEGRITY AND IDENTIFICATION OF A NUCLEIC ACID TEMPLATE IN A MULTIPLEX SEQUENCING REACTION - The invention generally relates to methods for maintaining the integrity and identification of a nucleic acid template in a multiplex sequencing reaction. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve obtaining a solution including a template nucleic acid, introducing an identifier nucleic acid to the solution, incorporating the same barcode sequence into the template and the identifier nucleic acids, and sequencing the template and the identifier nucleic acids. | 10-04-2012 |
20130274146 | CAPTURE REACTIONS - The invention generally relates to methods of performing a capture reaction. In certain embodiments, the method involves obtaining a nucleic acid, fragmenting the nucleic acid, and capturing a target sequence on the nucleic acid fragment using a capture moiety, such as a molecular inversion probe. | 10-17-2013 |
20130288901 | ANALYSIS METHODS - The invention generally relates to methods for analyzing nucleic acids to identify novel mutations associated with diseases. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve obtaining nucleic acid from a subject having a disease, identifying at least one mutation in the nucleic acid, and comparing the mutation to a database of mutations known to be associated with the disease, wherein mutations that do not match to the database are identified as novel mutations. | 10-31-2013 |
20130324417 | DETERMINING THE CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF VARIANT SEQUENCES - The present invention generally relates to determining the clinical significance of a variant nucleic acid sequence. The invention can involve sequencing a nucleic acid to generate at least one sequence read, identifying a variant sequence within the sequence read, determining the equivalent insertion/deletion region (EIR) of the variant sequence, identifying a functional region including at least a portion of the EIR, and associating the EIR with the identified functional region, thereby to determine the clinical significance of the variant. | 12-05-2013 |
20130337447 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR EVALUATING GENETIC MARKERS - Aspects of the invention relates to methods and compositions that are useful to reduce bias and increase the reproducibility of multiplex analysis of genetic loci. In some configurations, predetermined preparative steps and/or nucleic acid sequence analysis techniques are used in multiplex analyses for a plurality of genetic loci in a plurality of samples. | 12-19-2013 |
20140127688 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING CONTAMINATION IN SAMPLES - Methods and systems for determining if a sample has been contaminated with other genetic material, for example, from another sample in a parallel workflow. The methods and systems compare measured allele fractions to predetermined distributions of allele fractions in order to calculate a likelihood that the sample has been contaminated. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129201 | VALIDATION OF GENETIC TESTS - The invention provides a method for validating a genetic test by introducing a simulated mutation into sequence reads. By editing the information in one or more sequence read files, a set of sequence reads can be manipulated to represent an expected genotype. An analysis of those sequence reads produces an observed genotype and concordance between the expected and observed genotypes validates the analysis. Thus, the invention provides methods for validating new genetic tests. | 05-08-2014 |
20140308667 | METHODS FOR ANALYZING NUCLEIC ACIDS - The invention generally relates to methods for analyzing nucleic acids. In certain aspects, methods of the invention involve obtaining a sample including a nucleic acid template. A plurality of molecular inversion probes are tiled across a portion of the template. The probes are designed such that immediately adjacent probes hybridize to opposite strands of the nucleic acid template and probes on the same strand hybridize to the template in an overlapping manner. A region between targeting arms of a plurality of the molecular inversion probes is filled-in with nucleotides, and the filled-in region of a plurality of the probes is analyzed to obtain sequence information about the nucleic acid template. | 10-16-2014 |