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| 8190374 | Method and device to detect therapeutic protein immunogenicity The present invention consists of a time-temperature indicator device that has at least one parameter set to warn when a therapeutic protein drug has had a thermal history associated with increased risk of unwanted immunological activity. The indicator device is des... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185324 | Method of determining initial concentration of nucleic acid in sample using real-time amplification data Disclosed is a method of determining an initial concentration of a target nucleic acid within a sample using real-time nucleic acid amplification data. Amplification efficiencies of the target nucleic acid with respect to amplification time are obtained from signals... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185323 | Method of identifying exons and introns and diagnostic uses thereof Novel introns and exons are detected by selecting for a specific group of known correlating splice junctions, then searching for unknown introns and exons within that group. Also, diseases are detected by selecting for introns and exons associated with diseases or m... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170808 | Methods and computer software for detecting splice variants Methods and software products for analysis of alternative splicing are disclosed. In general the methods involve normalizing probe set or exon intensity to an expression level measurement of the gene. The methods may be used to identify tissue-specific alternative s... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165823 | Pamps, pathogen associated molecular patterns A method for identifying a polypeptide which acts as an adjuvant in a host organism. The invention further provides adjuvant compositions comprising said polypeptides and optionally further comprising an antigen. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160819 | Rapid identification of proteins and their corresponding source organisms by gas phase fragmentation and identification of protein biomarkers Embodiments of the present invention relate to the identification of proteins using laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry, the identification of source organisms from which the identified proteins are derived and a computer readable storage medium storing in... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155889 | Method for assessing degree of reliability of nucleic acid base sequence Disclosed herein is a method for assessing the degree of reliability of a nucleic acid base sequence, by which a higher-accuracy assessment result of the degree of reliability can be obtained as compared to a case where the degree of reliability is assessed based on... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150634 | Protein-ligand NOE matching for high-throughput structure determination A method of enhancing the throughput and applicability of NMR-based structure determination of protein-ligand complexes is disclosed. The method circumvents the need for protein sequence-specific resonance assignments and combines NMR data analysis and ligand dockin... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150635 | Method and an apparatus for determining nucleotide sequence, and a computer program product to be executed by the apparatus A method for determining nucleotide sequence encompasses: injecting a solution containing a sample DNA into a chip cartridge provided with a detecting electrode, to which a probe DNA is immobilized; introducing an intercalator solution in the chip cartridge; obtaini... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145437 | System and method to obtain oligo-peptides with specific high affinity to query proteins This application is based on the concept of the Proteomic Code, PC (discovered and described by Biro, 1981-2011, for review see ref 6) and making use of the biological observation, that co-locating amino acids [in interacting proteins] are coded by partially complem... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145436 | Method and systems for identifying micro-RNA targets and synthesizing novel micro-RNAs and uses of the same Method of identifying a microRNA-recognition element and of generating microRNAs are disclosed. System and computer programs for performing such methods are disclosed. Recombinant nucleic acid molecule comprising a heterologous coding sequences and one or more MREs ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8126655 | Information processing system using information on base sequence The present invention provides a highly-safe information processing system that is capable of effectively using nucleotide sequence information differences between individual organisms to offer semantic information useful for each individual organism while properly ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121797 | T-cell epitope prediction Epitope prediction models are described herein. By way of example, a system for predicting epitope information relating to a epitope can include a classification model (e.g., logistic regression model). The trained classification model can illustratively operatively... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116988 | Method for indexing nucleic acid sequences for computer based searching The present invention relates to a method for indexing nucleic acid sequences to aid computer based searching of nucleic acid sequences by indexing a nucleotide sequence by the presence of unique Kmers in the sequence. The method of the present invention comprises u... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8095323 | Polymorphism detection The present invention generally provides a rapid efficient method for analyzing polymorphic or biallelic markers, and arrays for carrying out these analyses. In general, the methods of the present invention employ arrays of oligonucleotide probes that are complement... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090542 | Functional and hyperfunctional siRNA Efficient sequence specific gene silencing is possible through the use of siRNA technology. By selecting particular siRNAs by rationale design, one can maximize the generation of an effective gene silencing reagent, as well as methods for silencing genes. ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090543 | Computer algorithm for automatic allele determination from fluorometer genotyping device The present invention provides methods and systems for an automated method of identifying allele values from data files derived from processed fluorophore emissions detected during the observation of fluorophore labeled nucleotide probes used in analyzing polymorphi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8068996 | Electronic hybridization assay and sequence analysis An electronic hybridization assay implements a hybridization reaction, or a sequence analysis, on sequences representative of the sequences of the molecules under examination to provide an output representative of a chemical hybridization reaction. An electronic hyb... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065093 | Methods, systems, and compositions for classification, prognosis, and diagnosis of cancers The present invention provides methods, systems and compositions for predicting disease susceptibility in a patient. In some embodiments, methods for the classification, prognosis, and diagnosis of cancers are provided. In other embodiments, the present invention pr... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050872 | System and method for rapid searching of highly similar protein-coding sequences using bipartite graph matching An exemplary embodiment of system, computer-accessible medium and method for comparing a first genome to a second genome. For example, a first genome may be compared to a second genome by building a first library for the first genome and a second library for the sec... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8032310 | Computer-implemented method, computer readable storage medium, and apparatus for identification of a biological sequence A computer-implemented biological sequence identifier (CIBSI) system and method for selecting a subsequence from biological sequence data according to at least one selection parameter. The at least one selection parameter corresponds to a likelihood of returning a m... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8014961 | Integrated systems and methods for diversity generation and screening Integrated systems and methods for diversity generation and screening are provided. The systems use common fluid and array handling components to provide nucleic acid diversification, transcription, translation, product screening and subsequent diversification react... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005627 | Bioinformatic approach to disease diagnosis A multivariate diagnostic method based on optimizing diagnostic likelihood ratios through the effective use of multiple diagnostic tests is disclosed. The Neyman-Pearson Lemma provides a mathematical basis to produce optimal diagnostic results. The method can compri... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000902 | Methods and compositions for selecting siRNA of improved functionality Efficient sequence specific gene silencing is possible through the use of siRNA technology. By selecting particular siRNAs by rational design, one can maximize the generation of an effective gene silencing reagent, as well as methods for silencing genes. Methods, co... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991564 | Methods for high throughput genotyping Methods for genotyping polymorphisms using allele specific probes are disclosed. A training set is used to generate a model for each polymorphism to be interrogated. The training set is used to obtain an estimate of the asymmetry between an intensity measurement for... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987056 | Mixed-library parallel gene mapping quantitative micro-array technique for genome-wide identification of trait conferring genes The present disclosure concerns methods and compositions relating to mixed-library parallel gene trait mapping. In particular embodiments, the methods concern quantitative microarray hybridization techniques for genome-wide identification of trait conferring genes. ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7979446 | Computer-implemented biological sequence identifier system and method A method of: submitting reference sequences to a taxonomic database to produce taxonomic results; and reporting a taxonomic identification based on the taxonomic results. The reference sequences are the output of genetic database queries that return a score for each... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970553 | Concurrent optimization in selection of primer and capture probe sets for nucleic acid analysis Disclosed is a method of iteratively optimizing two (or more) interrelated sets of probes for the multi-step analysis of sets of designated sequences, each such sequence requiring, for conversion, at least one conversion probe (“primer”), and each converted sequ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962291 | Methods and computer software for detecting splice variants Methods and software products for analysis of alternative splicing are disclosed. In general the methods involve normalizing probe set or exon intensity to an expression level measurement of the gene. The methods may be used to identify tissue-specific alternative s... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7925447 | Significance measure of structured clusters The exemplary embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for calculating a probability. An input is received, wherein the input comprises a PQ tree. The leaf nodes of the PQ tree are counted to form a number of lea... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925448 | Method and system for determination of molecular interaction parameters A method of determining kinetic parameters for a reversible molecular interaction between a ligand immobilized to a solid support surface and a binding partner to the ligand in solution, comprises sequentially, without intermediate regeneration or renewal of the imm... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7917301 | Method and device for identifying a biological sample The method and system for identifying a biological sample generates a data set indicative of the composition of the biological sample. In a particular example, the data set is DNA spectrometry data received from a mass spectrometer. The data set is denoised, and a b... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917306 | Methods and systems for generating cell lineage tree of multiple cell samples A method of generating a cell lineage tree of a plurality of cells of an individual is provided. The method comprising: (a) determining at least one genotypic marker for each cell of the plurality of cells; and (b) computationally clustering data representing the at... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917304 | Spotter provided with spot pattern encryption function and detection device coping with spot pattern encryption Plural probes spotted on a probe immobilization substrate are arranged such that the probes cannot be specified by a third party easily. When the plural probes are spotted on the probe immobilization substrate, a position where each probe is spotted is changed for e... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917305 | System and method for identifying a gapped permutation pattern A system and method for identifying gapped permutation patterns, includes discovering all clusters in the input data sequence that occur with a predetermined gap. ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917303 | Method for identifying combinations of motifs that do not mutate simultaneously in a set of viral polypeptide sequences comprising a putative drug binding site Methods for identifying a motif or a combination of motifs having a Boolean state of predetermined mutations in a set of sequences including a) aligning a set of sequences of ordered motifs represented by a single-character code, b) comparing a reference sequence wi... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917302 | Determination of optimal local sequence alignment similarity score Sequence alignment and sequence database similarity searching are among the most important and challenging task in bio informatics, and are used for several purposes, including protein function prediction. An efficient parallelisation of the Smith-Waterman sequence ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7904250 | Computer software to assist in identifying SNPS with microarrays The present invention is a method to assist in the identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) from microarray hybridization data. Data from hybridization protocols run on microarrays often have variations in the data resulting from variations in hybridi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7894999 | Systems and methods for identifying Replikin Scaffolds and uses of said Replikin Scaffolds The present invention provides a new class of peptides related to rapid replication and high human mortality, and their use in diagnosing, preventing and treating disease including vaccines and therapeutics for emerging viral diseases and methods of identifying the ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894998 | Method for identifying suitable nucleic acid probe sequences for use in nucleic acid arrays Methods of identifying regions of a nucleic acid sequence suitable for use as probes in nucleic acid arrays, as well as compositions of matter for practicing such methods, are provided. The subject methods include: (a) providing a set of known, undesirable probe seq... | 02/22/2011 |
