US Patent Issued to SOPHIA GENETICS on May 13 for "Methods for asymmetric DNA library generation and optionally integrated duplex sequencing" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,490, issued on May 13, was assigned to SOPHIA GENETICS S.A. (Rolle, Switzerland).

"Methods for asymmetric DNA library generation and optionally integrated duplex sequencing" was invented by Alisa Alekseenko (Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland) and Vicente Jose Pelechano Garcia (Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and products are disclosed for asymmetrically adapting fragmented nucleic acids for next generation sequencing, including providing strand identifier sequences and index sequences to identify the source strand sample, respectively, of the fragmented nucleic acids. The methods and products allow for effi...