CpG Island Modification for Nucleic Acid Sequence Optimization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Compound production, including protein synthesis, faces challenges such as phenomena in genomic information that lead to defective products and decreased efficiency, making it difficult to achieve high-quality outputs.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for modifying nucleic acid sequences by identifying and modifying CpG islands in genomic information, determining methylation probabilities, and selecting alternative nucleotide orders to enhance compound production, which includes hardware processors configured by machine-readable instructions and components for analyzing and presenting alternative sequences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If genomic information is modified to eliminate phenomena that hinder compound production, then compound production quality and efficiency are enhanced, but it may create new phenomena or modify amino acid production

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompound production efficiencyVSAvoidproduct quality consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the nucleotide sequence parameters (specifically CpG pairs) in the genomic information while maintaining the amino acid sequence. By modifying the DNA level parameters without altering the protein-coding information, the system enhances compound production efficiency while avoiding creation of new harmful phenomena or amino acid modifications

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates alternative nucleic acid sequences that copy the original functional information but with modified CpG island structures. These alternative sequences serve as improved versions that maintain protein functionality while eliminating methylation-prone regions, thus resolving the contradiction between productivity enhancement and reliability maintenance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Productivity

If CpG islands are modified to reduce methylation probabilities, then compound production is enhanced, but the genomic information structure is altered

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompound productionVSAvoidnucleic acid sequence structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local modifications only to CpG island regions within the nucleic acid sequence, leaving the rest of the genomic structure unchanged. By targeting specific local areas (CpG pairs) rather than the entire sequence, the system enhances compound production while maintaining overall genomic stability and structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments the nucleic acid sequence into distinct regions, identifying and modifying only the CpG island segments that are prone to methylation. This segmentation approach allows selective modification of problematic regions while preserving the stability and integrity of the overall genomic information structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20240229111A1Systems and methods for modifying nucleic acid sequences to enhance compound production
Publication Date: 2024.07.11 FORM BIO INC
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AI summary

System and method for modifying nucleic acid sequences to enhance compound production are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain genomic information including a representation of a nucleic acid sequence that includes an order of nucleotides; identify individual promoter regions in the order of nucleotides; detect one or more CpG islands; determine one or more probabilities of methylation for individual CpG islands; select one or more of the individual CpG islands for modification of one or more CpG pairs included in the one or more of the individual CpG islands; identify one or more alternative orders of nucleotides for the one or more CpG pairs of the selected CpG islands; analyze the one or more alternative orders of nucleotides; present the one or more alternative orders of nucleotides; and/or perform other steps.