Biologicals & Immunologicals: Process for categorising nucleotide sequencing populations

The nature of the invention relates to a method of “sorting” populations of nucleic acids, especially for use as templates for large scale sequencing studies such as those currently being pursued in the Human Genome Project. The invention permits “indexing” of nucieic acids, and facilitates the selection of individual sequences at will, thus obviating the problem of sequencing the same nucleic acid fragment several times. The latter case is often found in the current piecemeal approach to microdissection of the human genetic complement.