US Patent:
20060259249, Nov 16, 2006
Inventors:
Rangarajan Sampath - Encinitas CA, US
Vivek Samant - Encinitas CA, US
Christian Massire - Carlsbad CA, US
Harold Levene - San Diego CA, US
David Ecker - Encinitas CA, US
John McNeil - La Jolla CA, US
International Classification:
G06F 19/00
Abstract:
The method described herein relate generally the identification of bioagents on the basis of base composition signatures for bioagent-identifying amplicons. Specifically, methods of the present invention are directed to the application of pattern recognition models, particularly probability pattern classifiers, to the identification of both known and previously unrecognized bioagents. In certain embodiments, the pattern classifiers relate to probability cloud patterns, such as mutational probability patterns. In other embodiments the pattern classifiers relate to polytope pattern models.