摘要 |
The invention provides a method of synthesizing complex mixtures of long polynucleotides by separately synthesizing and assembling shorter component oligonucleotides. In one aspect, pairs of oligonucleotides that form components of such polynucleotides are synthesized on one or more microarrays, or other large-scale parallel solid phase synthesis platforms, after which they are released. Members of each pair contain unique complementary barcode sequences that are used match-up pairs in a hybridization reaction to form duplexes. Such duplexes are then extended with a DNA polymerase and the resulting extension product is amplified to form an amplicon. The amplicon may be either used directly as the desired polynucleotide, or it may undergo further processing, such as capture on solid phase supports and/or additional enzymatic or chemical processing, to produce a desired polynucleotide product, such as a circularizing probe for multiplex analysis of genomic DNA, or the like.
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