The SOLiD 3 System provides high throughput DNA sequencing with several advantages over other technologies:
- It can sequence entire transcriptomes without any gaps, determine strand-specific expression patterns, and detect SNPs with low false positives.
- Applications include assessing DNA-protein interactions across multiple samples, discovering novel transcripts and splice variants without microarray bias, and characterizing structural rearrangements.
- The system uses emulsion PCR to clonally amplify template beads, followed by deposition of modified beads on a flow cell and sequencing by ligation using fluorescently labeled di-base probes.