ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,974, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Quality detection of variant calling using a machine learning classifier" was invented by Hong Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tobias Hamp (Cambridge, Great Britain), Joshua Goodwin Jon Mcmaster-Schraiber (Berkeley, Calif.), Laksshman Sundaram (Fremont, Calif.) and Kai-How Farh (Hillsborough, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to variant calling of sequenced reads of a sample of a target species against a reference genome of a pseudo-target species. Low-quality variants are identified as false positive variants that are present in the sec...