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Brief Communication

Nature Methods 3, 601–603 (1 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/nmeth905

A unique and universal molecular barcode array

Sarah E Pierce , Eula L Fung , Daniel F Jaramillo , Angela M Chu , Ronald W Davis , Corey Nislow & Guri Giaever

Molecular barcode arrays allow the analysis of thousands of biological samples in parallel through the use of unique 20-base-pair (bp) DNA tags. Here we present a new barcode array, which is unique among microarrays in that it includes at least five replicates of every tag feature.