Abstract:
The present invention will provide a novel technique to evaluate the reliability of the signal indicating the presence of secondary contributor nucleic acids in the analytical data of nucleic acid mix samples containing a small ratio of secondary contributor nucleic acids, such as cffDNA, ctDNA, and ddcfDNA. Regression analysis is performed on the composite variables and fidelity obtained from linear combination of a numerical group that includes at least the secondary contributor component signal intensity and the secondary contributor component mix rate in the analysis data, and a model function for calculating the fidelity is obtained.
Abstract:
Described herein are methods and systems for identifying a composition having anti-pathogenic activity; evaluating the anti-pathogenic activity of a composition; measuring the metabolic function of a pathogen; and/or comparing the anti-pathogenic performance of a plurality of compositions.
Abstract:
Disclosed are methods, libraries, and samples for quantifying a target analyte in a laboratory sample including the target analyte. The methods typically include the step of estimating the amount of the target analyte in the laboratory sample from mass spectrometric data including signal intensities for the target analyte and one or more internal standards, where the mass spectrometric data are an output of a mass spectrometric analysis of a target sample produced from the laboratory sample and a predetermined amount of the one or more internal standards. The present disclosure also provides a method for analyte quantification. The method comprises adding one or more calibrators to a sample comprising one or more analytes; applying mass spectrometry (MS) to the sample; and using a trained machine learning model to determine an absolute concentration of the one or more analytes.
Abstract:
The technology disclosed predicts quality of base calling during an extended optical base calling process. The base calling process includes pre-prediction base calling process cycles and at least two times as many post-prediction base calling process cycles as pre-prediction cycles. A plurality of time series from the pre-prediction base calling process cycles is given as input to a trained convolutional neural network. The convolutional neural network determines from the pre-prediction base calling process cycles, a likely overall base calling quality expected after post-prediction base calling process cycles. When the base calling process includes a sequence of paired reads, the overall base calling quality time series of the first read is also given as an additional input to the convolutional neural network to determine the likely overall base calling quality after post-prediction cycles of the second read.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for nanopore sequencing basecalling. In one embodiment, the method can include: receiving raw nanopore sequencing data comprising a plurality of continuous data acquisition (DAC) values corresponding to a biomolecule; normalizing the raw nanopore sequencing data to generate normalized nanopore sequencing data comprising a plurality of normalized DAC values; generating, using a first neural network (NN) and a normalized DAC value of the plurality of normalized DAC values, a vector of transformed probability values, segmenting the plurality of normalized DAC values into a plurality of discrete events; generating, using a second neural network and the event vector, an element determination of the biomolecule.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for identifying biomarkers and generating an output indicative of lung cancer. The method for identifying biomarkers comprises the steps of collecting a breath sample from subjects known to have lung cancer and subjects known to be free of lung cancer; analyzing the collected breath samples to determine all mass ions in each of the collected breath samples using at least one time-resolved separation technique and at least one mass-resolved separation technique; identifying a subset of the determined mass ions in a processor as the biomarkers for detecting lung cancer, the subset of the determined mass ions are statistically significant for detecting lung cancer; and combining the subset of the determined mass ions in a multivariate algorithm in the processor to generate a value of a discriminant function indicating the likelihood that the subject has lung cancer.
Abstract:
Protein confidence values are calculated in proteomic analysis. A protein database is searched for proteins matching peptides found from mass spectrometry of a sample producing a set of proteins and a corresponding set of peptides. Peptide confidence values for the set of peptides are determined. Protein confidence values are calculated for the set of proteins based on the peptide confidence values. A protein is selected from the set of proteins with a largest protein confidence value, the largest protein confidence value is saved for the protein, the protein is removed from the set of proteins, and one or more peptides corresponding to the protein are removed from the set of peptides. Protein confidence values are recalculated for the set of proteins based on the peptide confidence values and an effect of removing the one or more peptides from the set of peptides.
Abstract:
A method for verifying an ILS signal for DNA processing includes obtaining the ILS signal, determining acquisition times between peaks of the ILS signal, obtaining acquisition times between peaks in reference ILS information for the ILS signal, and verifying the ILS signal based on the ILS acquisition times and the reference ILS acquisitions times. An ILS signal processor (116) includes a false peak remover (208) that removes any false peaks in an ILS signal and a signal verifier (212) that verifies the ILS signal includes only true peaks based on reference ILS information for the ILS signal.
Abstract:
A system, method for determining blood biomarkers implemented by a processor and memory circuitry (PMC) and a program storage device and computer program product which includes providing near infra-red spectrogram data i of a patient's living tissue; using one or more pre-trained prediction models comprising a selected number of prediction routes, and determining prediction data on a selected group of biomarkers; determining one or more biomarkers associated with a number of groups, and determining an average concentration data of said biomarkers in accordance with output data of a number of prediction routes associated with said number of groups; and generating output data indicative of estimated levels of a selected set of biomarkers for said patient.
Abstract:
Disclosed are an optical spectrometry-based method for detecting a target analyte in a sample and a device for detecting a target analyte in a sample using an optical spectrometer unit. Measurement is performed by effectively separating emission light from light measured by the spectrometer unit. A target nucleic acid is accurately detected, and the use of an optical filter for filtering a specific wavelength is not necessary.