Patent ID: 9292653
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: B01L,C12Q,G16B

Claim Text:
1. A method for identifying one or more nucleic acids in a sample, the method comprising: an imaging system obtaining thermal dissociation data for the one or more nucleic acids by measuring a signal emanating from the sample as the temperature of the sample is increasing over a nucleic acids dissociation range, wherein the signal is indicative of a nucleic acid denaturation; a processor in communication with the imaging system providing a mathematical representation to model the thermal dissociation data, the mathematical representation being a sum including one or more terms, wherein each of the one or more terms is associated with one of the nucleic acids in the sample, wherein each of the one or more terms depends on the temperature of the sample and parameters defining the one of the nucleic acids in the sample; fitting by the processor the measured thermal dissociation data to the mathematical representation to calculate the parameters defining each of the one or more nucleic acids in the sample; and identifying by the processor each of the one or more nucleic acids in the sample based on the calculated parameters.