[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 67 (Friday, April 6, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 18230]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-8555]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army


Availability for Non-Exclusive, Exclusive, or Partially Exclusive 
Licensing of U.S. Patent Application Concerning Schlager Blast Utility 
Program

AGENCY: U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with 37 CFR 404.6, announcement is made of the 
availability for licensing of U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 60/
235,899 entitled ``Schlager Blast Utility Program'' and filed September 
28, 2000. This patent application has been assigned to the United 
States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Army.

ADDRESSES: Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, 
ATTN: Command Judge Advocate, MCMR-JA, 504 Scott Street, Fort Detrick, 
Maryland 21702-5012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For patent issues, Ms. Elizabeth 
Arwine, Patent Attorney, (301) 619-7808. For licensing issues, Dr. Paul 
Mele, Office of Research & Technology Assessment, (301) 619-6664. Both 
at telefax (301) 619-5034.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: An object-oriented program was developed to 
run in Windows environment. The program is designed (1) to identify DNA 
in multiple sequence files; (2) to electronically capture search 
results from the National Center for Biotechnology Institute (NCBI) 
databases; and (3) to retrieve stored results data in a interconnected 
file structure organized for easy review and further analysis. The 
program automatically creates folders for placement of sequence 
identification data, locates known sequences of DNA for removal, 
interacts with the BLAST program on the NCBI website to identify 
unknown DNA data by sequence comparison, stores and parses the HTML 
formatted match results into Excel files and compiles the best match 
from each file into a DNA library file. The program automates each of 
these steps involved in the identification of the DNA nucleotide 
sequences capturing all pertinent NCBI data in a spreadsheet format.

Luz D. Ortiz,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-8555 Filed 4-5-01; 8:45 am]
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