Methods for Rule-based Genome Design
Summary
USPTO published patent application US20260100251A1 for computer-implemented methods of rule-based genome design. The application covers systems receiving known genome data and allele lists, generating alternative gene sequences, and scoring each sequence using a weighted combination of multiple rules, constraints, or parameters. Inventors include George M. Church and Nili Ostrov.
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USPTO published patent application US20260100251A1 for Methods for Rule-based Genome Design. The application discloses computer-implemented methods including receiving known genome data and allele lists, identifying and removing allele occurrences, generating alternative gene sequences, applying multiple rules or constraints to assign per-rule scores, and selecting sequences based on weighted scoring. The methods enable systematic design, testing, and validation of genome designs.
Affected parties include synthetic biology companies, genome engineering researchers, and computational biology platform developers who may wish to design genomes using similar rule-based approaches. Patent filing activity in this space may signal future licensing requirements or competitive considerations for genome design software developers.
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Methods for Rule-based Genome Design
Application US20260100251A1 Kind: A1 Apr 09, 2026
Inventors
Gleb Kuznetsov, Marc J. Lajoie, Matthieu M. Landon, Michael G. Napolitano, Daniel Bryan Goodman, Christopher J. Gregg, George M. Church, Nili Ostrov
Abstract
Methods and systems for designing, testing, and validating genome designs based on rules or constraints or conditions or parameters or features and scoring are described herein. A computer-implemented method includes receiving data for a known genome and a list of alleles, identifying and removing occurrences of each allele in the known genome, determining a plurality of allele choices with which to replace occurrences in the known genome, generating a plurality of alternative gene sequences for a genome design based on the known genome, wherein each alternative gene sequence comprises a different allele choice, applying a plurality of rules or constraints or conditions or parameters or features to each alternative gene sequence by assigning a score for each rule or constraint or condition or parameter or feature in each alternative gene sequence, resulting in scores for the applied plurality of rules or constraints or conditions or parameters or features, scoring each alternative gene sequence based on a weighted combination of the scores for the plurality of rules or constraints or conditions or parameters or features, and selecting at least one alternative gene sequence as the genome design based on the scoring.
CPC Classifications
G16B 35/10 C07K 14/245 C12N 15/1089 C12P 21/00 G16B 20/50 A61K 38/00
Filing Date
2024-09-30
Application No.
18901470
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