Summaries by Inventor Wylie, Todd

Rapid, accurate RT-PCR test for enterovirus D68
Storch, Gregory ; Wylie, Kristine ; Wylie, Todd
T-015155

— Technology Description A team of researchers at Washington University designed patented primers for a sensitive, specific, real-time reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) assay to quickly detect enterovirus D68 (EV-D68). EV-D68 is an emerging, highly contagious respiratory virus that can cause seve…

ViroCap: enhanced, efficient virome sequencing with metagenomic capture probes
Storch, Gregory ; Wylie, Kristine ; Wylie, Todd
T-015124

— Technology Description A team of researchers at Washington University developed “ViroCap”, a patented capture probe technique for senistive, comprehensive, in-depth metagenomics analysis vertebrate viruses. This invention could enhance traditional metagenomics shotgun sequencing (MSS) w…

VarScan
Ding, Li ; Koboldt, Daniel ; Larson, David ; McLellan, Michael ; Wylie, Todd
T-009883

— arScan is a Java-based, platform-independent, software tool that can detect variants in next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. It employs a robust statistical approach to call variants and is able to handle germline variants, multi-sample variants, somatic mutations and somatic copy number alterati…