Compositions and methods for sequencing using at least electrical characteristics

• Main Authors: MANDELL, Jeffrey, ROGERT BACIGALUPO, Maria Candelaria
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.01.2023
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; ENZYMOLOGY; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; SPIRITS; VINEGAR; WINE

Provided herein are compositions and methods for sequencing using at least altering electrical characteristics of polymer bridges. In some examples, the bridges may span the space between first and second electrodes and may include first and second polymer chains that are hybridized to one another. A plurality of nucleotides may be coupled to corresponding labels. A polymerase may be coupled to the bridge and may add nucleotides to a first polynucleotide using at least a sequence of a second polynucleotide. The labels corresponding to those nucleotides respectively may alter hybridization between the first and second polymer chains. Detection circuitry may detect a sequence in which the polymerase adds the nucleotides to the first polynucleotide using at least changes in an electrical signal through the bridge, the changes being responsive to the respective alterations of hybridization using the labels corresponding to those nucleotides.