US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for identifying and expressing gene clusters" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,540, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for identifying and expressing gene clusters" was invented by Brian Thomas Naughton (Mountain View, Calif.), Colin Harvey (Mountain View, Calif.), Ulrich Schlecht (Falkensee, Germany), Maureen Elizabeth Hillenmeyer (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Joe Horecka (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for identifying biosynthetic gene clusters that include genes for producing compounds that interact with specific target proteins are disclosed. Some methods relate to bioinformatics methods...