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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
David P Holden, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrew L Diamond, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
PE Applied Biosystems, a division of Perkin-Elmer, Foster City, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
702 20 ; 702 19 ; 702 22 ; 702 27 ; 702 32 ; 204450 ; 204461 ; 204600 ; 356344 ;
Abstract
A system and method for identifying lanes in images generated from DNA sequencing and fragment analysis is described. One example method includes a computer implemented method of determining the locations of lanes of separated samples. Each lane corresponds to a sample being separated by flowing the sample through a media. The method includes the following elements. Place some samples on the media. Cause the samples to separate into the lanes. Create a digital image of the lanes. Fit some curves to the lane images. Each curve corresponds to a lane formed from a separated sample.