US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 1 for "BAMBAM: parallel comparative analysis of high-throughput sequencing data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,526, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"BAMBAM: parallel comparative analysis of high-throughput sequencing data" was invented by John Zachary Sanborn (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and David Haussler (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential sequence object is constructed on the basis of alignment of sub-strings via incremental synchronization of sequence strings using known positions of the sub-strings relative to a reference genome sequence. An output file is then generated that comprises only relevant changes with respect to the reference genome."

The pa...