Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for the design and/or production of a probe or primer that is capable of hybridizing to a plurality of sites in a sample comprising nucleic acid. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods for detecting and amplifying nucleic acid using such a probe or primer, for example, for identification of a strain, species or genera. Probe or primer sequences are determined by reference to codon usage bias of a target nucleic acid. In addition, the present invention provides methods for determining codon distribution and/or base pair distance between codons in a nucleic acid.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 9, 2010
Date of Patent:
September 25, 2018
Assignee:
Ezygene PTY Ltd.
Inventors:
Murali Nayudu, Andrew Franklin, Yafei Zhang, Mark John Gibbs, Terry John Murphy, Adrian John Gibbs, Sheba Khan, Christian Samundsett