Patent ID: 8748102

Claim:
A method for analyzing nucleic acid sequences comprising: (a) generating a plurality of molecules of a fragment of deoxyribonucleic acid; (b) delivering the plurality of molecules of the fragment of deoxyribonucleic acid into aqueous microreactors in a water-in-oil emulsion such that a plurality of aqueous microreactors comprise a single molecule of the fragment of deoxyribonucleic acid, a single bead capable of hybridizing the fragment of deoxyribonucleic acid, and reagents necessary to perform deoxyribonucleic acid amplification; (c) amplifying the fragment of deoxyribonucleic acid in the microreactors to form amplified copies of said fragment of deoxyribonucleic acid bound to beads in the microreactors; (d) determining the presence of amplified copies of said fragment of deoxyribonucleic acid bound to a bead.