Patent ID: 11934884
Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for sequencing a biological sample, the method comprising:
obtaining a plurality of images; and
distributing the plurality of images to a plurality of processing engines for coordinated application processing, the plurality of processing engines to perform image processing, wherein the plurality of images cover an image area in which the biological sample to be sequenced is present, the image area comprising multiple different sub-areas that each correlate to a respective area of a flow cell, wherein the plurality of images comprise images of a sequence of bases, of the biological sample, to be sequenced, wherein the image processing proceeds across multiple cycles of image processing to process a respective set of images, of the plurality of images, of each sub-area of the different sub-areas, and therefore of the respective area, of the flow cell, to which that sub-area correlates, and wherein the distributing the plurality of images comprises, for each sub-area of the different sub-areas:
distributing, at each cycle of the multiple cycles of the image processing, images, of the respective set of images of the sub-area, taken at that cycle to a respective processing engine, of a plurality of processing engines, associated with, and selected for, processing the respective set of images of the sub-area taken at each cycle of the multiple cycles of the image processing.