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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
May. 04, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gunter Schmidt, Houghton, GB;
Andrew Hugin Thompson, Ayr, GB;
Assignee:
Brax Group Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C12P 1/934 ; C07H 2/104 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C12P 1/934 ; C07H 2/104 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for analyzing a population of nucleic acid fragments each labeled with a mass label, which method comprises: i) ionizing the population; ii) sorting the ionized population in a mass spectrometer according to mass into sub-populations each containing at least one labeled fragment; iii) cleaving each sub-population to release the mass label associated with each labeled fragment; iv) determining the mass of each released mass label by mass spectroscopy; and v) assigning each mass label to its associated fragment.