Patent ID: 6444422
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: C12Q,G16B,Y10T

Abstract:
A method in a computer system for correlating known characteristics of nucleic acid molecules to molecular tags with unique molecular weights that have been associated with the nucleic acid molecules or portions thereof, the method comprising:receiving an indication of a mapping of known characteristic(s) of each nucleic acid molecule to the corresponding molecular weight of the molecular tag associated with the known characteristic(s); receiving an indication of the molecular weights detected when analyzing the tags that have been dissociated from the nucleic acid molecules or portions thereof, wherein the tags are separated based on a determined characteristic of the associated nucleic acid molecules or portions thereof other than the sequences of the nucleic acid molecules before the dissociation of the tag from the nucleic acid molecules or portions thereof; and for each molecular weight detected determining based on the received mapping the known characteristic(s) of the nucleic acid molecule corresponding to the detected molecular weight; and indicating that the nucleic acid molecule has the determined characteristic.