US Patent Issued to Seven Bridges Genomics on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for use of known alleles in read mapping" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,217, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Seven Bridges Genomics Inc. (Charlestown, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for use of known alleles in read mapping" was invented by Deniz Kural (Charlestown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally relates to genomic studies and specifically to improved methods for read mapping using identified nucleotides at known locations. The invention provides methods of using identified nucleotides at known places in a genome to guide the analysis of sequence reads from that genome by excluding potential mappings or assemblies that are not congruent with the identified nucleotides. Inf...