US Patent 8,467,974. System, method, and computer software for the presentation and storage of analysis results. Inventors: Shantanu Kaushikkar, Teresa Webster, Rui Mei, Linda McAllister. Assignee: Affymetrix
This patent is for a system and methods of processing "emission intensity data" from biological array probes. According to the abstract, the system includes a genotype and statistical analysis manager that "determines absolute or relative expression values based, at least in part, on a statistical measure of the emission intensity data and at least one user-selectable statistical parameter." The manager may also "determine genotype calls for one or more probes" as well as "display the absolute or relative expression values."
US Patent 8,467,971. Structure based alignment and clustering of proteins (STRALCP). Inventors: Adam Zemla, Carol Zhou, Jason Smith, Marisa Lam. Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security
Describes computational methods of clustering protein structures based on local and pair-wise global similarity values and "identifying spans of conserved residues within the clustered proteins," the abstract states.
US Patent 8,463,555. System and methods for indel identification using short read sequencing. Inventors: Zheng Zhang. Assignee: Applied Biosystems
Describes systems, methods, and analytical approaches for short read sequence assembly and for detecting insertions and deletions in a reference genome.
US Patent 8,457,903. Method and/or apparatus for determining codons. Inventors: Robin Emig, Richard John Fox, Claes Gustafsson, Sridhar Govindarajan, Jeremy Minshull, Guy Cavet. Assignee: Codexis Mayflower Holdings
This patent application describes methods and systems for "minimizing and/or optimizing data strings in accordance with rules and options." These strings, the abstract states, can "represent data sequences important in certain biologic analyses/or syntheses."
US Patent 8,452,542. Structure-sequence based analysis for identification of conserved regions in proteins. Inventors: Adam Zemla, Carol Zhou, Jason Smith, Marisa Lam, Jason Smith, Elizabeth Pardes. Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security
Describes computational methods for scoring conservation in a protein structure based on "a computationally identified family or cluster of protein structures," the abstract states.
US Patent 8,447,526. Methods and computer systems for analyzing high-throughput assays. Inventors: Lee Weng, Hongyue Dai, Steven Bartz. Assignee: Microsoft
Describes methods of detecting variations in measurements of biological variables, for example, variations in cell viability with or without treatment.
US Patent 8,442,771. Methods and apparatus for term normalization. Inventor: Xinglong Wang. Assignee: ITI Scotland
Describes a natural language processing-based method for "normalizing … mentions of subcellular entities, such as proteins and/or genes" in biomedical texts.