Published online 25 August 2004
Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 32 No. 15 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved
Genomic representations using concatenates of Type IIB restriction endonuclease digestion fragments
1 Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA, 2 Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Boston, MA 02115, USA and 3 The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA
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Received June 11, 2004; Revised and Accepted August 11, 2004
We have developed a method for genomic representation using Type IIB restriction endonucleases. Representation by concatenation of restriction digests, or RECORD, is an approach to sample the fragments generated by cleavage with these enzymes. Here, we show that the RECORD libraries may be used for digital karyotyping and for pathogen identification by computational subtraction.