METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SEQUENCING POLYMERS WITH A STATISTICAL CERTAINTY USING MASS SPECTROMETRY - Patent 0827628

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EP 0 827 628 A1

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(43)	Date of publication:
	11.03.1998 Bulletin 1998/11

(21)	Application number: 96916490.0

(22)	Date of filing: 17.05.1996

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

G01N 27/ 62^{( . )}
C12P 21/ 06^{( . )}
G01N 33/ 483^{( . )}
H01J 49/ 04^{( . )}

C07K 1/ 12^{( . )}
C12Q 1/ 34^{( . )}
G01N 33/ 68^{( . )}
H01J 49/ 26^{( . )}

(86)	International application number:
	PCT/US1996/007146

(87)	International publication number:
	WO 1996/036986 (21.11.1996 Gazette 1996/51)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	DE GB

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Priority:

19.05.1995 US 19950446055
19.05.1995 US 19950447175

(60)	Divisional application:
	06075761.4 /

(71)	Applicant: PERSEPTIVE BIOSYSTEMS, INC.
	Framingham, MA 07101 (US)

(72)	Inventors:
	PATTERSON, Dale, H. Nashua, NH 03062 (US) TARR, George, E. S. Hamilton, MA 01982 (US)

(74)	Representative: Greenwood, John David, et al
	Graham Watt & Co. Riverhead Sevenoaks Kent TN13 2BN Sevenoaks Kent TN13 2BN (GB)

(54)	METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SEQUENCING POLYMERS WITH A STATISTICAL CERTAINTY USING MASS SPECTROMETRY