Patent ID: 7647188

Claim:
A method of processing a heterozygous input nucleic acid chromatogram from a heterozygous nucleic acid sample having a plurality of substantially simultaneous traces, each trace in said plurality of traces having a plurality of datapoints and each respective datapoint in each said plurality of datapoints representing a signal amplitude at a position in the trace corresponding to the respective datapoint, the method comprising: identifying a first peak in a first trace in said plurality of traces that is substantially overlapping a second peak in a second trace in said plurality of traces, the substantial overlap of the first peak and the second peak thereby indicating heterozygosity in the heterozygous input nucleic acid chromatogram; and outputting said first peak to a first output homozygous representation of said heterozygous nucleic acid sample and said second peak to a second output homozygous representation of said heterozygous nucleic acid sample wherein said identifying and said outputting are executed using a suitably programmed computer.