WO1997037041A3 - Dna sequencing by mass spectrometry - Google Patents

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WO1997037041A3
WO1997037041A3 PCT/US1997/004394 US9704394W WO9737041A3 WO 1997037041 A3 WO1997037041 A3 WO 1997037041A3 US 9704394 W US9704394 W US 9704394W WO 9737041 A3 WO9737041 A3 WO 9737041A3
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nucleoside triphosphates
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    • C12Q1/6869—Methods for sequencing
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The invention describes a new method to sequence DNA. The improvements over the existing DNA sequencing technologies are high speed, high throughput, no electrophoresis and gel reading artifacts due to the complete absence of an electrophoretic step, and no costly reagents involving various substitutions with stable isotopes. The invention utilizes the Sanger sequencing strategy and assembles the sequence information by analysis of the nested fragments obtained by base-specific chain termination via their different molecular masses using mass spectrometry, as for example, MALDI or ES mass spectrometry. A futher increase in throughtput can be obtained by introducing mass-modifications in the oligonucleotide primer, chain-terminating nucleoside triphosphates and/or in the chain-elongating nucleoside triphosphates, as well as using integrated tag sequences which allow multiplexing by hybridization of tag specific probes with mass differentiated molecular weights.
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