Patent ID: 8407554

Claim:
A method for processing errors in data corresponding to a sequence of an oriented linear heteropolymer comprising monomers, the method comprising: acquiring an output of data from an apparatus operative to identify a sequence within the linear heteropolymer to obtain one or more preliminary codes, wherein a preliminary code includes a plurality of base calls, a base call being selected from a group of one of at least three possible bases and a no-call, and wherein a preliminary code is intended to resemble a member of an expected known delimited code set of block codes, and wherein at least one of the one or more preliminary codes includes at least one no-call; and for each of the preliminary codes: applying the base calls of the preliminary code as a vector of symbols of the delimited code set; and invoking, using a computer processing system, an error detection or correction algorithm for a block error identification on the vector to identify one or more errors in the symbols; and outputting at least one error to a storage subsystem for utilization.