Patent Document ID: 20020183934
Application ID: 09494282
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of making a recombinant nucleic acid, the method comprising: providing a plurality of parental character strings corresponding to a plurality of nucleic acids, which character strings, when aligned for maximum identity, comprise at least one region of heterology; aligning the character strings; defining a set of character string subsequences, which set of subsequences comprises subsequences of at least two of the plurality of parental character strings; providing a set of oligonucleotides corresponding to the set of character string subsequences; annealing the set of oligonucleotides; and, elongating one or more members of the set of oligonucleotides with a polymerase, or ligating at least two members of the set of oligonucleotides with a ligase, thereby producing one or more recombinant nucleic acid.