Patent 8080393 was granted and assigned to Olink AB on December, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to production of oligonucleotides using rolling circle replication, wherein synthesised multimeric oligonucleotides are reduced to mononucleotides using a nicking cassette. Thus, the invention provides a method for the production of oligonucleotides, enabling efficient amplification of oligonucleotides at lengths up to at least 1000 nucleotides and in high amounts contained within a nicking cassette.