Douglas Avery

US Patent:

6871147, Mar 22, 2005

Filed:

Sep 24, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/961058

Inventors:

John J. Schlager - Bel Air MD, US
Richard E. Sweeney - Upper Darby PA, US
Douglas P. Avery - Crofton MD, US

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army - Washington DC

International Classification:

G01N033/48
G06F007/00
C12Q001/68

US Classification:

702 19, 702 20, 707102, 435 6, 536 231

Abstract:

A method of identifying and archiving a nucleic acid sequence includes a) creating a directory of files in a computer, for storing information related to the nucleic acid sequence; b) inputting a raw nucleic acid sequence into the computer; c) trimming the raw nucleic acid sequence to obtain a trimmed nucleic acid sequence; d) submitting the trimmed nucleic acid sequence electronically to a nucleic acid identification database having a search program and receiving search results electronically from the nucleic acid identification database; e) choosing selective information from each search result and inserting the selective information from each search result into a first electronic spreadsheet; and f) selecting at least one of the search results from the first electronic spreadsheet and inserting the at least one search result into a second electronic spreadsheet.