Methods and compositions for clonal amplification of nucleic acid

1. A method of labeling and amplifying a nucleic acid molecule in a plurality of nucleic acid molecules, comprising the steps of:

(a) attaching a unique antiprimer P1 to each of a plurality of nucleic acid molecules to be amplified;

(b) hybridizing a molecule from step (a) to a solid surface in a plurality of solid surfaces, wherein each of said solid surfaces is attached to a single molecule of primer P1, which is complementary to the unique antiprimer P1 , to form a single captured DNA fragment on each solid surface;

(c) extending P1 hybridized in step (b) to form a double stranded fragment, then denaturing the double stranded fragment to form a single stranded captured DNA fragment attached to each solid surface through primer P1;

(d) labeling the single stranded captured DNA fragment from step (c) by nucleotide extension;

(e) isolating the captured DNA fragment labeled in step (d) by the label;

(f) attaching additional primers P1 to the solid surface after isolating the labeled, captured DNA fragment from step (e); and

(g) amplifying the captured DNA fragment from step (e) using the additional primers attached in step (f).

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the unique antiprimer P1 is an adapter comprising a unique barcode, the method further comprising a step of sequencing the amplified nucleic acid molecules and identifying the barcode sequence.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the unique antiprimer P1 is attached to the nucleic acid molecule by ligating the adapter comprising a unique barcode to the nucleic acid molecule.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the unique barcode comprises a unique sequence of five nucleotides.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the unique antiprimer identifies a source of nucleic acid.

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein the unique barcode identifies a source of nucleic acid.

7. The method of claim 5 or claim 6 , wherein the source of nucleic acid is selected from the group consisting of: a BAG clone, a bacterium, and a tissue sample.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the labeled nucleic acid molecule is amplified by a sequencing-by-synthesis method.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the labeled nucleic acid molecule is amplified by a method selected from the group consisting of: massively parallel signature sequencing, BEAM, and polony technology.

10. A method of clonal amplification of a nucleic acid molecule, comprising the steps of:

(a) labeling the nucleic acid molecule with a unique anti primer P1 ;

(b) hybridizing said nucleic acid molecule containing antiprimer P1 to one primer P1 molecule, where only one primer P1 molecule is immobilized on a solid surface;

(c) incubating the solid surface of (b) comprising P1 and nucleic acid molecule containing antiprimer P1 with polymerase and nucleotides under conditions permitting extension of said one molecule of immobilized primer P1 to form a double stranded fragment complementary to the nucleic acid molecule containing antiprimer P1 , then denaturing the double stranded fragment to form a single stranded captured DNA fragment attached to each solid surface through primer P1;

(d) labeling the single stranded captured DNA fragment from step (c);

(e) isolating a solid surface containing labeled product from step (d) from solid surfaces not containing labeled product;

(f) incubating the isolated solid surface of (e) under conditions permitting denaturing of the nucleic acid molecules containing antiprimers P1 from the extended primers P1; removing supernatant containing extended anti-primers as a result of the denaturing; incubating the solid surface under conditions permitting immobilizing of additional primers P1 on the solid surface;

and

(g) incubating the solid surfaces of (f) with polymerase, nucleotides, and one or more oligonucleotides that hybridize to the immobilized anti-primers of (f), under conditions permitting extension of said hybridized oligonucleotides, wherein the nucleic acid molecule is thereby amplified.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the unique anti primer of (a) is an adapter comprising a unique barcode the method further comprising a step of sequencing the amplified nucleic acid molecules and identifying the barcode sequence.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the unique barcode comprises a unique sequence of five nucleotides.

13. The method of claim 10 , further comprising: (g) sequencing the immobilized amplified nucleic acid molecules of (f).

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the nucleic acid molecules are sequenced by pyrosequencing.

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein the unique antiprimer identifies a source of nucleic acid.

16. The method of claim 11 , wherein the unique barcode identifies a source of nucleic acid.

17. The method of claim 15 or claim 16 , wherein the source of nucleic acid is selected from the group consisting of: a BAG clone, a bacterium, and a tissue sample.

18. The method of claim 10 , wherein the solid surface is a bead.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the bead is selected from the group consisting of: a magnetic bead and a Sepharose bead.