title: Optical mapping approaches to molecular genomics.
abstract: A variety of physical mapping methods exist for the analysis of nucleic acids or genomes, including hybridization, sequence tagged site mapping, restriction enzyme fingerprinting, radiation hybrid mapping and optical mapping. Single-molecule approaches offer numerous advantages, including very high resolution, small sample size requirements, and parallel sample processing. The convergence of recent advances in new single molecule techniques, surface chemistry and machine vision technology has contributed to novel approaches to genome analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, W Keck Laboratory for Biomolecular Imaging, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. Schwad01@mcrcr6.med.nyu.edu
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Samad
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D005821:Genetic Techniques; D016678:Genome; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D008967:Molecular Biology; D055095:Optics and Photonics