US Patent Issued to Seven Bridges Genomics on March 17 for "Computer method and system of identifying genomic mutations using graph-based local assembly" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,046, issued on March 17, was assigned to Seven Bridges Genomics Inc. (Charlestown, Mass.).

"Computer method and system of identifying genomic mutations using graph-based local assembly" was invented by John Browning (Woburn, Mass.) and Deniz Kural (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and systems for performing a local assembly of a genomic region of interest include the de novo or assisted creation of a directed graph, such as a directed acyclic graph (DAG), from a plurality of obtained nucleotide sequence reads. First and second sequence reads are aligned to each other to define at least on...