Nabsys, Inc.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nabsys, 2.0 LLC

Peter H Goldstein

Franco Preparata

John S Oliver

Barrett Bready

Eli Upfal

John Oliver

A sequencing method is presented in which a biomolecule is hybridized with a specially chosen pool of different probes of known sequence which can be electrically distinguished. The different probe types are tagged such that they can be distinguished from each other in a Hybridization Assisted Nanopore Sequencing (HANS) detection system, and their relative positions on the biomolecule can be determined as the biomolecule passes through a pore or channel. The methods eliminate, resolve, or greatly reduce ambiguities encountered in previous sequencing methods.

Methods for sequencing a biomolecule by detecting relative positions of hybridized probes

Methods for sequencing a biopolymer by forming local ternary complexes along the length of the double-stranded biopolymer target molecule using one or more probes and obtaining information about the location of the probe(s) using a detector. These methods offer particular advantage when implemented with nanopore (including micropore) detection systems.

Biopolymer Sequencing By Hybridization of probes to form ternary complexes and variable range alignment

A method for determining a sequence of a biomolecule, the method including binding a plurality of uniform probes to a biomolecule fragment, creating a collection of binding signatures for the fragment with each binding signature representing a series of distances between binding sites within the fragment, and grouping the binding signatures into a plurality of signature clusters based at least in part on distances between the binding sites in each binding signature. For each binding signature in a first cluster, a potential successor binding signature is selected from signature clusters other than the first signature cluster, and one of the potential successor binding signatures is identified as a successor binding signature. The last two steps are repeated until the successor signature represents a terminal signature, resulting in a sequence of signatures representing at least a portion of the biomolecule.

Tagged-fragment map assembly

Biopolymer sequencing by hybridization of probes to form ternary complexes and variable range alignment

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