US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on April 14 for "Validation methods and systems for sequence variant calls" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,149, issued on April 14, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Validation methods and systems for sequence variant calls" was invented by Xiao Chen (La Jolla, Calif.), Chen Zhao (San Diego), Jessica Gordon (San Diego), Shile Zhang (San Diego), Tingting Jiang (San Diego), Gwenn Berry (San Diego), Yesha Shah (San Diego) and Han-Yu Chuang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for validating variant calls. Sequencing data is received for a sample read along the genomic sequence of interest. An indication is received of a potential variant call at a designated position within the sequence of nuc...