Patent ID: 7702104

Claim:
A computer-implemented security system for securing an electronic version of a nucleotide chain sequence, wherein the nucleotide chain sequence comprises at least a portion of a genome of an organism, the system comprising: a computer hardware apparatus; and a computer program that, when loaded and executed, controls the computer hardware apparatus such that it carries out: on a first application, identifying a sequence of at least one exon and a sequence of at least one intron in the nucleotide chain sequence; selectively encrypting the sequence of only the at least one exon identified in the nucleotide chain to provide security over a network, wherein the selectively encrypting only the sequence of the at least one exon utilizes cipher block chain encrypting; outputting the electronic version of the nucleotide chain sequence, including both the encrypted sequence of the at least one exon and the unencrypted sequence of the at least one intron, wherein the outputting includes transmitting the encrypted sequence of the at least one exon and the unencrypted sequence of the at least one intron; and on a second application, receiving the encrypted sequence of the at least one exon and the unencrypted sequence of the at least one intron; decrypting the encrypted sequence of the at least one exon; and regenerating the nucleotide chain from the decrypted sequence of the at least one exon and the unencrypted sequence of the at least one intron to re-form the original nucleotide chain sequence.