Patent 12119088 was granted and assigned to Illumina on October, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system, a method and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for base calling are described. The base calling method includes processing through a neural network first image data comprising images of clusters and their surrounding background captured by a sequencing system for one or more sequencing cycles of a sequencing run. The base calling method further includes producing a base call for one or more of the clusters of the one or more sequencing cycles of the sequencing run.