Patents Represented by Attorney Brendan O. Baggot
  • Patent number: 8014955
    Abstract: Described are methods and systems for designing target-specific oligonucleotides of L-length. The method comprises a) parsing a polynucleotide target into overlapping sequences of N-length nucleotides, creating a kernel set; b) performing step a) reiteratively for each target until each it is associated with its own kernel set; c) removing N-length kernels from the kernel sets which are redundant; d) concatenating X-length nucleotide suffixes to each N-length nucleotide kernel to create L-length oligonucleotide sets; e) ordering L-length nucleotides within each set of step d) by their nucleotide position within the target; f) retaining or rejecting an L-length oligonucleotide, based on the presence or absence of each of the X consecutive and overlapping N-length kernels; and g) performing step f) reiteratively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Tariq Alsheddi, Anna Baranova
  • Patent number: 7989201
    Abstract: A promoter comprising nucleotides from positions 2489-3038 of FIG. 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Ancha Baranova, Mikhail Skoblov, Konstantin Shakhbazov