US Patent Issued to MGI Tech, BGI Shenzhen on Dec. 16 for "Single tube bead-based DNA co-barcoding for accurate and cost-effective sequencing, haplotyping, and assembly" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,713, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MGI Tech Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China) and BGI Shenzhen (Shenzhen, China).

"Single tube bead-based DNA co-barcoding for accurate and cost-effective sequencing, haplotyping, and assembly" was invented by Radoje T. Drmanac (San Jose, Calif.), Brock A. Peters (San Jose, Calif.) and Ou Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for preparing a nucleic acid sequencing library are described including (a) transposing an insertion sequence into first fragments of the target nucleic acid, wherein the insertion sequence comprises a hybridization sequence, and wherein the t...