METHOD FOR INDENTIFYING TWO NUCLEIC ACID BASE CODE SEQUENCES

摘要

In a method and an apparatus for identifying two nucleic acid base code sequences belonging to a given set of known base code sequences and being superposed on each other in an original sequence which comprises base codes as well as ambiguity codes, a master template sequence is constructed from said given set of base code sequences as combination sequences of base codes and ambiguity codes. One or more determinations of the original sequence are made to obtain one or more test sequences which are aligned against said master template sequence in such a manner that the matching between the sequences is optimized. A consensus sequence is determined from the aligned test sequences and is compared with all the combination sequences. A match between one of the combination sequences and the consensus sequence indicates that particular combination sequence corresponds to said two nucleic acide base code sequences to be identified.