A novel method for nucleic acid sequence determination

Abstract

We describe a novel sequencing methodology which should be readily and completely automated. The method relies on fragmentation of a nucleotide or deoxynucleotide sequence into short fragments, and subsequent quantitation of the fragments by hybridization to oligo-deoxynucleotides on a solid support. The original sequence may be reconstructed from the resulting table of fragment frequencies. We present a specific protocol which would allow practical implementation of this approach.