Patent 9551031 was granted and assigned to Pacific Biosciences on January, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Nucleic acid compositions, methods of making and using such compositions that comprise modular functional groups that can be configured to provide desired functionality to different nucleotide types through a swappable and preferably non-covalent linkage component. Such compositions are useful in a variety of applications including nucleic acid analyses.