US Patent Issued to DOVETAIL GENOMICS on Sept. 2 for "Generation of phased read-sets for genome assembly and haplotype phasing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,537, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to DOVETAIL GENOMICS LLC (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

"Generation of phased read-sets for genome assembly and haplotype phasing" was invented by Richard E. Green Jr. (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Daniel S. Rokhsar (Kensington, Calif.), Paul Hartley (San Jose, Calif.) and Marco Blanchette (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, compositions and systems that facilitate accurate phasing of sequence data such as genomic sequence data through the segmentation and rearrangement of nucleic acid molecules in such a way as to preserve individual molecules' phase or physical lin...