Patent ID: 9234241
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: B01J,B82Y,C12Q,C40B

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: providing a collection of oligonucleotides wherein each type of oligonucleotide is greater than 16 nucleotides and differs in nucleotide sequence, when aligned to another type of oligonucleotide in the collection, by at least 25%; providing a sample comprising a plurality of composite oligonucleotides, each composite oligonucleotide comprising (i) a zip-code portion, and (ii) one or more further nucleotide sequences; contacting the sample comprising the plurality of composite oligonucleotides with the collection of oligonucleotides under conditions effective to hybridize the zip-code portion of each composite oligonucleotide to its complementary oligonucleotide in the collection; and detecting the one or more of the plurality of composite oligonucleotides hybridized to their complementary oligonucleotides in the collection.