US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 5 for "BAMBAM: parallel comparative analysis of high-throughput sequencing data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,454, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"BAMBAM: parallel comparative analysis of high-throughput sequencing data" was invented by John Zachary Sanborn (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and David Haussler (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods for evaluating and/or predicting the outcome of a clinical condition, such as cancer, metastasis, AIDS, autism, Alzheimer's, and/or Parkinson's disorder. The methods can also be used to monitor and track changes in a patient's DNA and/or RNA during and following a clinical treatment regime. The me...