Patents by Inventor Kai-How FARH

Kai-How FARH has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11515010
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to determining pathogenicity of variants. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to generating amino acid-wise distance channels for a plurality of amino acids in a protein. Each of the amino acid-wise distance channels has voxel-wise distance values for voxels in a plurality of voxels. A tensor includes the amino acid-wise distance channels and at least an alternative allele of the protein expressed by a variant. A deep convolutional neural network determines a pathogenicity of the variant based at least in part on processing the tensor. The technology disclosed further augments the tensor with supplemental information like a reference allele of the protein, evolutionary conservation data about the protein, annotation data about the protein, and structure confidence data about the protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: Illumina, Inc., Illumina Cambridge Limited
    Inventors: Tobias Hamp, Hong Gao, Kai-How Farh
  • Patent number: 11488009
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to constructing a convolutional neural network-based classifier for variant classification. In particular, it relates to training a convolutional neural network-based classifier on training data using a backpropagation-based gradient update technique that progressively match outputs of the convolutional neural network-based classifier with corresponding ground truth labels. The convolutional neural network-based classifier comprises groups of residual blocks, each group of residual blocks is parameterized by a number of convolution filters in the residual blocks, a convolution window size of the residual blocks, and an atrous convolution rate of the residual blocks, the size of convolution window varies between groups of residual blocks, the atrous convolution rate varies between groups of residual blocks. The training data includes benign training examples and pathogenic training examples of translated sequence pairs generated from benign variants and pathogenic variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Kishore Jaganathan, Kai-How Farh, Sofia Kyriazopoulou Panagiotopoulou, Jeremy Francis McRae
  • Publication number: 20220336054
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to determining pathogenicity of variants. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to generating amino acid-wise distance channels for a plurality of amino acids in a protein. Each of the amino acid-wise distance channels has voxel-wise distance values for voxels in a plurality of voxels. A tensor includes the amino acid-wise distance channels and at least an alternative allele of the protein expressed by a variant. A deep convolutional neural network determines a pathogenicity of the variant based at least in part on processing the tensor. The technology disclosed further augments the tensor with supplemental information like a reference allele of the protein, evolutionary conservation data about the protein, annotation data about the protein, and structure confidence data about the protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicants: Illumina, Inc., Illumina Cambridge Limited
    Inventors: Tobias HAMP, Hong GAO, Kai-How FARH
  • Publication number: 20220336055
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to determining pathogenicity of variants. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to generating amino acid-wise distance channels for a plurality of amino acids in a protein. Each of the amino acid-wise distance channels has voxel-wise distance values for voxels in a plurality of voxels. A tensor includes the amino acid-wise distance channels and at least an alternative allele of the protein expressed by a variant. A deep convolutional neural network determines a pathogenicity of the variant based at least in part on processing the tensor. The technology disclosed further augments the tensor with supplemental information like a reference allele of the protein, evolutionary conservation data about the protein, annotation data about the protein, and structure confidence data about the protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicants: Illumina, Inc., Illumina Cambridge Limited
    Inventors: Tobias HAMP, Hong GAO, Kai-How FARH
  • Publication number: 20220336057
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to efficiently determining which atoms in a protein are nearest to voxels in a grid. The atoms have three-dimensional (3D) atom coordinates, and the voxels have 3D voxel coordinates. The technology disclosed generates an atom-to-voxels mapping that maps, to each of the atoms, a containing voxel selected based on matching 3D atom coordinates of a particular atom of the protein to the 3D voxel coordinates in the grid. The technology disclosed generates a voxel-to-atoms mapping that maps, to each of the voxels, a subset of the atoms. The subset of the atoms mapped to a particular voxel in the grid includes those atoms in the protein that are mapped to the particular voxel by the atom-to-voxels mapping. The technology disclosed includes using the voxel-to-atoms mapping to determine, for each of the voxels, a nearest atom in the protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicants: Illumina, Inc., Illumina Cambridge Limited
    Inventors: Tobias HAMP, Kai-How FARH, Hong GAO
  • Publication number: 20220336056
    Abstract: A system includes at least a voxelizer, an alternative allele encoder, an evolutionary conservation encoder, and a convolutional neural network. The voxelizer accesses a three-dimensional structure of a reference amino acid sequence of a protein and fits a three-dimensional grid of voxels on atoms in the three-dimensional structure on an amino acid-basis to generate amino acid-wise distance channels. The alternative allele encoder encodes an alternative allele sequence to each voxel in the three-dimensional grid of voxels. The evolutionary conservation encoder encodes an evolutionary conservation sequence to each voxel in the three-dimensional grid of voxels. The convolutional neural network applies three-dimensional convolutions to a tensor that includes the amino acid-wise distance channels encoded with the alternative allele sequence and respective evolutionary conservation sequences and determines a pathogenicity of a variant nucleotide based at least in part on the tensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicants: Illumina, Inc., Illumina Cambridge Limited
    Inventors: Tobias HAMP, Kai-How FARH, Hong GAO
  • Publication number: 20220237457
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to constructing a computer-implemented method for variant classification. In particular, the method includes using a pathogenicity prediction neural network to process as input, (i) a reference protein sequence that has a first chain of amino acids with at least twenty amino acids, (ii) an alternative protein sequence aligned with the reference sequence, where the alternative protein sequence has a second chain of amino acids with at least twenty amino acids, and the first and second chains of amino acids differ by a variant amino acid caused by a nucleotide substitution, and (iii) a primate conservation profile generated using a primate cross-species multiple sequence alignment that aligns the reference protein sequence with other protein sequences from primate species. The method further includes based on the processing of the input by the neural network, generating as output a pathogenicity prediction for the nucleotide substitution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Laksshman Sundaram, Kai-How Farh, Hong Gao, Samskruthi Reddy Padigepati, Jeremy Francis McRae
  • Patent number: 11397889
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to constructing a convolutional neural network-based classifier for variant classification. In particular, it relates to training a convolutional neural network-based classifier on training data using a backpropagation-based gradient update technique that progressively match outputs of the convolutional network network-based classifier with corresponding ground truth labels. The convolutional neural network-based classifier comprises groups of residual blocks, each group of residual blocks is parameterized by a number of convolution filters in the residual blocks, a convolution window size of the residual blocks, and an atrous convolution rate of the residual blocks, the size of convolution window varies between groups of residual blocks, the atrous convolution rate varies between groups of residual blocks. The training data includes benign training examples and pathogenic training examples of translated sequence pairs generated from benign variants and pathogenic variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Kishore Jaganathan, Kai-How Farh, Sofia Kyriazopoulou Panagiotopoulou, Jeremy Francis McRae
  • Patent number: 11386324
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to constructing a convolutional neural network-based classifier for variant classification. In particular, it relates to training a convolutional neural network-based classifier on training data using a backpropagation-based gradient update technique that progressively match outputs of the convolutional neural network-based classifier with corresponding ground truth labels. The convolutional neural network-based classifier comprises groups of residual blocks, each group of residual blocks is parameterized by a number of convolution filters in the residual blocks, a convolution window size of the residual blocks, and an atrous convolution rate of the residual blocks, the size of convolution window varies between groups of residual blocks, the atrous convolution rate varies between groups of residual blocks. The training data includes benign training examples and pathogenic training examples of translated sequence pairs generated from benign variants and pathogenic variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Hong Gao, Kai-How Farh, Laksshman Sundaram, Jeremy Francis McRae
  • Publication number: 20220164710
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for sharing medical data. The disclosed systems may be configured to create a first workgroup having a first knowledgebase. This first knowledgebase may be federated with a common knowledgebase, and with a second knowledgebase of a second workgroup. At least one of the first knowledgebase, common knowledgebase, and second knowledgebase may be configured to store data items comprising associations, signs, and evidence. The signs may comprise measurements and contexts, and the associations may describe the relationships between the measurements and contexts. The evidence may support these associations. The disclosed systems may be configured to receive a request from a user in the first workgroup, retrieve matching data items, and optionally then output to the user at least some of the retrieved matching data items. The request may comprise at least one of a first association and a first measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Kai-How Farh, Donavan Cheng, John Casey Shon, Jorg Hakenberg, Eugene Bolotin, James Geaney, Hong Gao, Pam Cheng, Inderjit Singh, Daniel Roche, Milan Karangutkar
  • Patent number: 11315016
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to constructing a convolutional neural network-based classifier for variant classification. In particular, it relates to training a convolutional neural network-based classifier on training data using a backpropagation-based gradient update technique that progressively match outputs of the convolutional neural network-based classifier with corresponding ground truth labels. The convolutional neural network-based classifier comprises groups of residual blocks, each group of residual blocks is parameterized by a number of convolution filters in the residual blocks, a convolution window size of the residual blocks, and an atrous convolution rate of the residual blocks, the size of convolution window varies between groups of residual blocks, the atrous convolution rate varies between groups of residual blocks. The training data includes benign training examples and pathogenic training examples of translated sequence pairs generated from benign variants and pathogenic variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Laksshman Sundaram, Kai-How Farh, Hong Gao, Samskruthi Reddy Padigepati, Jeremy Francis McRae
  • Patent number: 11244246
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for sharing medical data. The disclosed systems may be configured to create a first workgroup having a first knowledgebase. This first knowledgebase may be federated with a common knowledgebase, and with a second knowledgebase of a second workgroup. At least one of the first knowledgebase, common knowledgebase, and second knowledgebase may be configured to store data items comprising associations, signs, and evidence. The signs may comprise measurements and contexts, and the associations may describe the relationships between the measurements and contexts. The evidence may support these associations. The disclosed systems may be configured to receive a request from a user in the first workgroup, retrieve matching data items, and optionally then output to the user at least some of the retrieved matching data items. The request may comprise at least one of a first association and a first measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: Kai-How Farh, Donavan Cheng, John Shon, Jorg Hakenberg, Eugene Bolotin, James Casey Geaney, Hong Gao, Pam Cheng, Inderjit Singh, Daniel Roche, Milan Karangutkar
  • Publication number: 20220027388
    Abstract: Derivation and use of pathogenicity scores for gene variants are described herein. Applications, uses, and variations of the pathogenicity scoring process include, but are not limited to, the derivation and use of thresholds to characterize a variant as pathogenic or benign, the estimation of selection effects associated with a gene variant, the estimation of genetic disease prevalence using pathogenicity scores, and the recalibration of methods used to assess pathogenicity scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Hong Gao, Kai-How Farh, Jeremy Francis McRae
  • Publication number: 20220028485
    Abstract: Derivation and use of pathogenicity scores for gene variants are described herein. Applications, uses, and variations of the pathogenicity scoring process include, but are not limited to, the derivation and use of thresholds to characterize a variant as pathogenic or benign, the estimation of selection effects associated with a gene variant, the estimation of genetic disease prevalence using pathogenicity scores, and the recalibration of methods used to assess pathogenicity scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Hong Gao, Kai-How Farh, Jeremy Francis McRae
  • Publication number: 20200380412
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for sharing medical data. The disclosed systems may be configured to create a first workgroup having a first knowledgebase. This first knowledgebase may be federated with a common knowledgebase, and with a second knowledgebase of a second workgroup. At least one of the first knowledgebase, common knowledgebase, and second knowledgebase may be configured to store data items comprising associations, signs, and evidence. The signs may comprise measurements and contexts, and the associations may describe the relationships between the measurements and contexts. The evidence may support these associations. The disclosed systems may be configured to receive a request from a user in the first workgroup, retrieve matching data items, and optionally then output to the user at least some of the retrieved matching data items. The request may comprise at least one of a first association and a first measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Kai-How FARH, Donavan CHENG, John SHON, Jorg HAKENBERG, Eugene BOLOTIN, James Casey GEANEY, Hong GAO, Pam CHENG, Inderjit SINGH, Daniel ROCHE, Milan KARANGUTKAR
  • Publication number: 20200279157
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to constructing a convolutional neural network-based classifier for variant classification. In particular, it relates to training a convolutional neural network-based classifier on training data using a backpropagation-based gradient update technique that progressively match outputs of the convolutional neural network-based classifier with corresponding ground truth labels. The convolutional neural network-based classifier comprises groups of residual blocks, each group of residual blocks is parameterized by a number of convolution filters in the residual blocks, a convolution window size of the residual blocks, and an atrous convolution rate of the residual blocks, the size of convolution window varies between groups of residual blocks, the atrous convolution rate varies between groups of residual blocks. The training data includes benign training examples and pathogenic training examples of translated sequence pairs generated from benign variants and pathogenic variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Hong GAO, Kai-How FARH, Laksshman SUNDARAM, Jeremy Francis McRAE
  • Publication number: 20200251183
    Abstract: The technology disclosed presents a deep learning-based framework, which identifies sequence patterns that cause sequence-specific errors (SSEs). Systems and methods train a variant filter on large-scale variant data to learn causal dependencies between sequence patterns and false variant calls. The variant filter has a hierarchical structure built on deep neural networks such as convolutional neural networks and fully-connected neural networks. Systems and methods implement a simulation that uses the variant filter to test known sequence patterns for their effect on variant filtering. The premise of the simulation is as follows: when a pair of a repeat pattern under test and a called variant is fed to the variant filter as part of a simulated input sequence and the variant filter classifies the called variant as a false variant call, then the repeat pattern is considered to have caused the false variant call and identified as SSE-causing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Dorna KASHEFHAGHIGHI, Amirali KIA, Kai-How FARH
  • Patent number: 10607156
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for sharing medical data. The disclosed systems may be configured to create a first workgroup having a first knowledgebase. This first knowledgebase may be federated with a common knowledgebase, and with a second knowledgebase of a second workgroup. At least one of the first knowledgebase, common knowledgebase, and second knowledgebase may be configured to store data items comprising associations, signs, and evidence. The signs may comprise measurements and contexts, and the associations may describe the relationships between the measurements and contexts. The evidence may support these associations. The disclosed systems may be configured to receive a request from a user in the first workgroup, retrieve matching data items, and optionally then output to the user at least some of the retrieved matching data items. The request may comprise at least one of a first association and a first measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: Kai-How Farh, Donavan Cheng, John Shon, Jorg Hakenberg, Eugene Bolotin, James Casey Geaney, Hong Gao, Pam Cheng, Inderjit Singh, Daniel Roche, Milan Karangutkar
  • Publication number: 20200065675
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to constructing a convolutional neural network-based classifier for variant classification. In particular, it relates to training a convolutional neural network-based classifier on training data using a backpropagation-based gradient update technique that progressively match outputs of the convolutional network network-based classifier with corresponding ground truth labels. The convolutional neural network-based classifier comprises groups of residual blocks, each group of residual blocks is parameterized by a number of convolution filters in the residual blocks, a convolution window size of the residual blocks, and an atrous convolution rate of the residual blocks, the size of convolution window varies between groups of residual blocks, the atrous convolution rate varies between groups of residual blocks. The training data includes benign training examples and pathogenic training examples of translated sequence pairs generated from benign variants and pathogenic variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Laksshman Sundaram, Kai-How Farh, Hong Gao, Samskruthi Reddy Padigepati, Jeremy Francis McRae
  • Patent number: D875773
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Kai-How Farh, Donavan Cheng, Andrew Warren, Ian D. Patrick