Patent 7267945 was granted and assigned to Applera on September, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention provides methods and kits for determining the presence of polynucleotides in samples. According to certain embodiments, the invention provides methods for determining the presence of target polynucleotides by amplifying the target polynucleotides in the sample, detecting amplification products, and determining the sequence of the amplification products.