has participant immediately preceded by Helicos sequencing Helicos sequencing PMID: 18388294. Single-molecule DNA sequencing of a viral genome. Harris TD, Buzby PR, Babcock H, Beer E, Bowers J, Braslavsky I, Causey M, Colonell J, Dimeo J, Efcavitch JW, Giladi E, Gill J, Healy J, Jarosz M, Lapen D, Moulton K, Quake SR, Steinmann K, Thayer E, Tyurina A, Ward R, Weiss H, Xie Z. Science. 2008 Apr 4;320(5872):106-9. Philippe Rocca-Serra adapted from wikipedia is a DNA sequencing which allows sequence identification of billions of DNA molecules immobilized to a surface by using DNA polymerase and fluorescently labeled nucleotides added one at a time. The sequencing process does not requires amplification step and is typically able to produce reads of 25 base pair length. true single molecule sequencing HeliScope Single Molecule Sequencer DNA sequencing by synthesis immobilization metadata complete