Patent ID: 9589101
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G16B

Claim:
1. A method of characterizing one or more microorganisms, the method comprising: accessing a file comprising one or more digital DNA sequences; selecting, by a computer system, a digital file comprising the file, wherein each of the one or more digital DNA sequences corresponds to a microorganism; dividing, using the computer system, the digital file into a plurality of file portions, wherein each file portion can be processed by a processing core; segmenting, by the computer system, each of the one or more digital DNA sequences in the plurality of file portions into one or more first portions; performing, by the computer system, a first set of alignments by comparing the one or more first portions to information stored in a first database; determining, by the computer system, sequence portions from among the one or more first portions that have an alignment match to the information stored in the first database; segmenting each of the one or more digital DNA sequences into one or more second portions using a window of a window size; for each DNA sequence of the one or more digital DNA sequences, performing, by the computer system, a set of iterative alignment actions including: characterizing one or more microorganisms based on: