TY - JOUR N2 - DNA sequencing remains one of the most important problems in molecular and computational biology. One of the methods used for this purpose is sequencing by hybridization. In this approach usually DNA chips composed of a full library of oligonucleotides of a given length are used, but in principle it is possible to use another types of chips. Isothermic DNA chips, being one of them, when used for sequencing may reduce hybridization error rate. However, it was not clear if a number of errors following from subsequence repetitions is also reduced in this case. In this paper a method for estimating resolving power of isothermic DNA chips is described which allows for a comparison of such chips and the classical ones. The analysis of the resolving power shows that the probability of sequencing errors caused by subsequence repetitions is greater in the case of isothermic chips in comparison to their classical counterparts of a similar cardinality. This result suggests that isothermic chips should be chosen carefully since in some cases they may not give better results than the classical ones. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/111827/PDF-MASTER/(52-3)231.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/111827 PY - 2004 IS - No 3 EP - 237 KW - computational biology KW - DNA sequencing KW - DNA chips KW - sequencing errors KW - resolving power A1 - Formanowicz, P. VL - vol. 52 DA - 2004 T1 - Resolving power of isothermic DNA sequencing chips SP - 231 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/111827 T2 - Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences Technical Sciences ER -