Method for identifying and characterizing organisms
US5087558A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 4, 1989 |
| Grant date | Feb 11, 1992 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 4, 2009 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S436/804
- WIPO fieldBiotechnology
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A method of characterizing an unknown organism species which comprises, determining the position of part or whole of evolutionarily conserved DNA sequences in DNA of the organism, relative to the position of restriction endonuclease cleavage sites in the DNA, thereby to obtain an identifying genetic characterization of the unknown organism, and comparing the characterization with information from at least two sets of identifying genetic characterizations derived from the same conserved sequences, each of the sets defining a known organism species.
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