Patent ID: 8412462

Claim:
An article of manufacture in a system for efficiently representing biopolymeric information, the article of manufacture comprising: a non-transitory machine readable medium containing a plurality of codes executable by a processor for causing the processor to: receive a nucleotide sequence associated with a biopolymeric molecule; determine differences between the nucleotide sequence and a controlled biopolymeric sequence wherein the differences correspond to biological events affecting one or more aspects of the biopolymeric molecule; generate, based upon the differences and using a defined instruction set, an instruction-encoded sequence of encoded instructions corresponding to a compressed representation of the nucleotide sequence wherein ones of the encoded instructions each include an opcode representative of a different one of the biological events and an operand relating to at least a portion of a monomer sequence of the biopolymeric molecule; and store the instruction-encoded sequence on a machine readable memory, wherein the instruction-encoded sequence is used for biological or genetic research or for medical purposes.