definiens: shall mean any material, compositions of matter, or article ofmanufacture which is covered by one or more Valid Claims of a patent or patent application listed inExhibit I or which is part of Lynx Know - How . Proprietary Reagents include Flow Cells, TaggedMicrobeads, Tag Vectors, Encoded Adaptors, Decoder Probcs, and Pac I restriction endonuclease . Asused herein, means an optically transmissive article comprising an inlet, an outlet, and aplanar chamber for substantially immobilizing microbeads in a closely packed planar array andthrough which processing reagents may be passed so that chemical or enzymatic reactions may be ' . carried out on the microbeads and optical signals generated as a result thereof may be deteeted . FlowCells are described and claimed in International patent publication WO98/53300, and related patentapplications . As used herein, mean populations of microbeads each member ofwhich asing!ekind of oIigol1u ~ leotide tag attached from a defined repertoire of oligonucleotide . · · · · · ~~:~~t ~ f~:1i~:r~~d:~;§~:~~i~~~:~;:~~t ~ j~~~~:~::;~:d~:;~:~d~ ; : . · ... ; : ; " ticakexf<;ptJoi- adoubl : e ; s~~ed · · . . .~ } :, : segnien : i.co : nsiStji1g : oran : oI!g9~}1cl~?tide ~g(~ually:~4jacentt,?,a;plo!1e;r;.¢rtiori siteorapolyI4lji'e { . ..... " .,tegion .,t~~v . eciorsarede ~ cri ~ edinU.S : pal?Jts5;635;400;S;846:7 i9;5,149;625, ~dtelaied~{~tsand patent applications As u;;'ed herein, ' : Ericoded A&Pt()r " means ~ double stranded adapto ~ molecule having a single stranded portion containing an oligonucleotide tag for.detection with a'complementary Decoder Probe . Encoded Adaptors are described in U, S. patent 6,013,445 and relatedpatents and patent applications . As used herein, means a fluorescently labeled single11- CERTAIN CONFIDENTIAl - INFORMATION CONTAINED 1NTlIIS DOCUME " '' ' . MARKED BY BRACK£'TS, IS FIUD WITH ruE SECURlT1£.SAND EXCHANCE COMMISSION PURSUANT TO RULE Z4s-2 OF"TlIE SECURlTlES £ XOiANGt ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED