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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2006
Kenneth H. Gilbert, Knoxville, TN (US);
John Douglas Birdwell, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Tse-wei Wang, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Dale V. Stransberry, Knoxville, TN (US);
Kenneth H. Gilbert, Knoxville, TN (US);
John Douglas Birdwell, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Tse-Wei Wang, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Dale V. Stransberry, Knoxville, TN (US);
University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Knoxville, TN (US);
Abstract
Analysis of DNA is critical to many applications including identifying perpetrators of crimes based on genetic evidence left at crime scenes. An initial step to analyzing DNA data is detection, identification, and quantization of allele peaks in the DNA data. The invention provides a method and apparatus for accurately and expeditiously performing this initial step by sequentially checking unfitted peaks against various models including a default model, a hybrid peak model, a dual fit model and, in special situations, a narrow fit function and a saturated fit function.