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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 13, 1998
Applicants:
Günter Schmidt, Houghton, GB;
Andrew Hugin Thompson, Alloway, GB;
Inventors:
Günter Schmidt, Houghton, GB;
Andrew Hugin Thompson, Alloway, GB;
Assignee:
Xzillion GmbH & Co., Frankfurt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C12P 19/34 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01); B01D 57/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for characterizing DNA, which comprises: (i) providing a population of DNA fragments, each fragment having cleavably attached thereto a mass label for identifying a feature of that fragment; (ii) separating the fragments on the basis of their length; (iii) cleaving each fragment in a mass spectrometer to release its mass label; and (iv) determining each mass label by mass spectrometry to relate the feature of each fragment to the length of the fragment.