Patent ID: 6850876

Claim:
A method of measuring uniformity of coverage of selected molecules, comprising: measuring a lack of uniformity in each subspace wherein the lack of uniformity for 1-D subspaces is: U 1 - D = ∑ i ∈ S 1 ⁢ ⁢ U s  S 1  where U s is a measure of lack of uniformity is in subspace s, U s =Σ i [n si (X d )−c si (X c )] 2 and where design X d places n si (X d ) points in cell i of subspace s, X c is the candidate set, c si (X c )=0 if the candidate set X c does not cover cell i, c si (X c )=1 for cell i covered by candidate set X c , S 1 is the set of all 1-D subspaces, and |S 1 | is the number of 1-D subspaces; and calculating an average of the lack of uniformity in each subspace.