Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for accessing, tracking and editing sequence analysis and software to accomplish the same. The present invention includes embodiments that permit a party, for example a customer, to track the status of the samples (e.g., tissue, blood, or DNA) that the party sends for sequence based typing (“SBT”) analysis. The party can also participate in the analysis by accessing the sequencing data for the submitted samples. A party is able to remotely access tools for sequence based typing (e.g., Histomatcher), and using such tools, the party can review and edit the data. The party can also generate reports via the accessed tools.

Abstract: Consensus sequences of introns 1, 2 and 3 from the majority of HLA-A, -B and -C allotypes are identified and used to develop primers located within introns 1 and 3 of the HLA-A, HLA-B and HLA-C genes. These primers are suitable for locus-specific amplification of the entirety of exons 2 and 3, i.e., the portion of these of genes most suitable for use in typing of HLA-A, HLA-B and HLA-C. These primers are also suitable for use as sequencing primers to determine the HLA alleles in sequence-based HLA typing.