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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2017
Karius, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Fred C. Christians, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Igor D. Vilfan, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Kertesz, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Timothy A. Blauwkamp, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shivkumar Venkatasubrahmanyam, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Rosen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rene Sit, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
KARIUS, INC., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides methods for determining relative abundance of one or more non-host species in a sample from a host. Also provided are methods involving addition of known concentrations of synthetic nucleic acids to a sample and performing sequencing assays to identify non-host species such as pathogens. Also provided are methods of tracking samples, tracking reagents, and tracking diversity loss in sequencing assays.