Abstract: |
Embodiments of a method and system for characterizing a skin-related condition in relation to a user can include one or more of: a handling network operable to collect containers comprising material from a set of users, the handling network comprising a sequencing system operable to determine microorganism sequences from sequencing the material; a microbiome characterization system operable to: determine at least one of microbiome composition data and microbiome functional diversity data based on the microorganism sequences, collect supplementary data associated with the skin-related condition for the set of users, and transform the supplementary data and the at least one of the microbiome composition data and the microbiome functional diversity data into a characterization model; and a therapy system operable to promote a treatment to the user for the skin-related condition based on characterizing the user with the characterization model in relation to the skin-related condition. |
Inventor: |
Apte, Zachary (San Francisco, CA, US); Richman, Jessica (San Francisco, CA, US); Valdivia, Catalina (San Francisco, CA, US); Almonacid, Daniel (San Francisco, CA, US) |
Applicant: |
uBiome, Inc. (San Francisco, CA, US) |
Face Assignee: |
N/A |
Filed: |
2017-04-25 |
Issued: |
2017-08-10 |
Claims: |
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1. A system for evaluating a skin-related condition in relation to a user, the system comprising:
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10. A method for characterizing a skin-related condition in relation to a first user, the method comprising:
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