Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for eliminating non-natural nucleic acid sequence portions from paired-end reads of nucleic acid fragments comprising the steps of (a) providing paired-end reads of nucleic acid fragments, wherein one of the two paired-end reads that constitute a read pair of a nucleic acid fragment is converted into its reverse complement form; (b) aligning the two paired-end reads of the read pair of step (a) with each other; (c) identifying overlapping sequence regions in the aligned paired-end reads; (d) identifying a unique molecular identifier (UMI) sequence as non-natural nucleic acid sequence in the aligned paired-end reads; (e) optionally storing said identified UMI sequence; (f) deleting said identified UMI sequence, if present, at the 5? end of each paired-end read; and (g) deleting said identified UMI sequence, if present, at the 3? end of each paired-end read.

Abstract: A microphone device that can be thrown to a member of an audience or to another user so that the microphone device recognizes the state of the motion of the microphone device and switches from a first state of motion to another state of motion when the state of motion is changed during the throw and switches the state of the microphone device from a mute state to unmute state according to the state of the motion.

Abstract: A microphone device that can be thrown to a member of an audience or to another user so that the microphone device recognizes the state of the motion of the microphone device and switches from a first state of motion to another state of motion when the state of motion is changed during the throw and switches the state of the microphone device from a mute state to unmute state according to the state of the motion.