“…Several methods have been reported for detection of ligation reaction products. These include: 1) heterogeneous assays that involve affinity capture of the product to a solid surface (e.g., microtiter wells) and detection by colorimetric, fluorimetric or bio(chemi)luminometric assays [Nickerson et al, 1990;Tobe et al, 1996;Samiotaki et al, 1994;Hansen et al, 1995;Tannous et al, 2003]; 2) electrophoretic methods [Baron et al, 1996;Eggerding et al, 1995;Sakthivel et al, 2001;Tobler et al, 2005;Nishida et al, 2005;Grossman et al, 1994]; 3) multiplex assays based on microarrays or spectrally encoded microspheres [Gerry et al, 1999;Consolandi et al, 2004;Li et al, 2006;Soper et al, 2005;Hashimoto et al, 2006;Iannone et al, 2000]; 5) homogeneous assays based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer [Chen et al, 1998;Lopez-Crapez et al, 2001], fluorescence coincidence analysis [Yeh et al, 2006], and nanoparticle reporters [Li et al, 2005].…”