Patent ID: 7047137

Claim:
A method of assigning one or more subject genome sequences to a class, comprising: (a) providing a set of known biological fragments, the set being of a fixed number of said known biological fragments, each known biological fragment in the set having a respective representation; (b) providing at least one training sequence; (c) for each known biological fragment, quantitatively determining a score with respect to each training sequence; (d) for each training sequence, forming a training feature vector, said training feature vector being a sequence of scores of each known biological fragment with respect to the training sequence; (e) using the training feature vectors, classifying the training sequences, thereby defining classes of sequences; (f) providing a subject genome sequence; (g) quantitatively determining a score of each known biological fragment with respect to the subject genome sequence; (h) forming a feature vector of the subject genome sequence, said feature vector being a sequence of scores of each known biological fragment in the set; and (i) using the feature vector and the training feature vectors, assigning the subject genome sequence to at least one of the defined classes of sequences, thereby producing classification, of the subject genome sequence.