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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2009
Alain Mir, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ramesh Ramakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Marc Unger, San Mateo, CA (US);
Bernhard G. Zimmermann, San Mateo, CA (US);
Alain Mir, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ramesh Ramakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Marc Unger, San Mateo, CA (US);
Bernhard G. Zimmermann, San Mateo, CA (US);
Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides assay methods that increase the number of samples and/or target nucleic acids that can be analyzed in a single assay. In certain embodiments, an assay method entails separately subjecting S samples to an encoding reaction that produces a set of T tagged target nucleotide sequences, each tagged target nucleotide sequence including a sample-specific nucleotide tag and a target nucleotide sequence. In some embodiments, an assay method entails separately subjecting S samples to an encoding reaction that produces a set of T tagged target nucleotide sequences, each tagged target nucleotide sequence including a first nucleotide tag linked to a target nucleotide sequence, which is linked to a second nucleotide tag. In either case, the tagged target nucleotide sequences from the S samples can be mixed to form an assay mixture and subsequently assayed.