ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,233, issued on May 26, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Method for the compression of genome sequence data" was invented by Guillaume Alexandre Pascal Rizk (Rennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, computer programs, and hardware circuits for compressing genomic sequence data. In one aspect, the method can include obtaining a read record, determining whether the read record corresponds to a read that is perfectly mapped to a reference sequence or imperfectly mapped to the reference sequence, based on determining that the read record corresponds to a read that is imperfectly mapped to the reference seq...