US Patent Issued to Personalis on Aug. 11 for "System and method for management of compressed sequencing files" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,180, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Personalis Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"System and method for management of compressed sequencing files" was invented by Alexander Halley Stram (Altadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for management of storing and analyzing genetic sequencing data. In some embodiments disclosed herein, a method for converting a compressed SAM file back into a raw FASTQ file, wherein the information of the raw FASTQ file is substantively identical to that which was stored in the original FASTQ file from which the compressed SAM file is based is provided. The method advantageously enables...