C12Q 1/6834 - Definition

Definition statement

This subclass covers:

All applications dealing with the enzymatic and biochemical coupling of nucleic acids to solid surfaces for the use in low throughput assays and the application of those solid surfaces in the subsequent analysis of a nucleic acid.

Informative references

Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:

Design and fabrication of microarrays (biochips) wherein the invention resides in the synthesis of polypeptides or polynucleotides; Apparatus and devices for combinatorial chemistry or for making molecular arrays.	B01J 19/00
Chemical synthesis or modification of nucleosides, nucleotides or oligonucleotides, chemically linked to other compounds (fluorescent labels)	C07H 21/00-C07H 21/04