C12Q MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES
Introduced: January 1980
Classification Context
- Section:
- CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- Class:
- BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
- Subclass:
- MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES
Description
C12Q encompasses analytical and diagnostic methods employing enzymes, nucleic acids, or microorganisms as measurement tools or substrates, including immunoassays, nucleic acid detection (PCR, sequencing), and enzymatic assays for clinical or research purposes. The subclass also covers test kits, reagent compositions, and diagnostic papers formulated for these assays, as well as automated control systems that monitor and regulate microbiological or enzymological processes based on real-time conditions. This classification includes technologies for pathogen identification, gene expression analysis, biomarker detection, and quality control in biotechnological manufacturing. C12Q excludes purely fermentation processes and bulk bioproduction (covered in C12N) and focuses instead on analytical quantification and process monitoring applications.
Scope Notes
Glossary: enzyme enzymes proteinaceous material which causes a chemical change in a starting material without being consumed in the reaction. involving when used in relation to a substance, includes the testing for the substance as well as employing the substance as a determinant or reactant in a test for a different substance. microorganism microorganisms single-celled organisms such as bacteria, actinomycetales or single-celled fungi, e.g. yeasts; for the purposes of classification, this term also includes viruses, undifferentiated human, animal or plant cells, protozoa, tissues and unicellular algae. nucleic acid nucleic acids comprises nucleic acids as in vitro compounds as well as sub-cellular parts in vivo like chromosome territories within the nucleus, plasmids, gene sequences, genetic information, mutations, polymorphisms such as SNPs, in silico base sequences, aptamers (ligand binding nucleic acids) and ribozymes (catalytic active RNA molecules). | Limiting references: Immunoassay Immunoassay with enzyme label Immunoassay with the carrier being a biological cell or cell fragment Immunoassay for microorganisms Immunoassay for venereal diseases Immunoassay for enzymes or isoenzymes Immunoassay for cancer Immunoassay for hepatitis
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