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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 23, 1999
Timothy J. Mitchison, Brookline, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides an improved system for the rapid and non-destructive identification of chemical compounds attached to solid supports. In general, the invention provides an identification unit comprising a tag attached to the solid support and a binding partner that interacts specifically and detectably with he tag. In preferred embodiments, the identification unit incorporates the advantages of chemically robust tags and a decoding technique capable of amplification for easy detection and analysis. The present invention further provides a kit comprising a collection of tags capable of attachment to a support and binding partners capable of binding selectively and detectably to the tags, to generate an identification unit for the facile determination of the structure of a compound of interest by determining the reaction history and/or structural characteristics of the compounds that are encoded by the identification unit.