The invention provides methods and compositions for attaching oligonucleotide tags to polynucleotides for the purpose of carrying out analytical assays in parallel and for decoding the oligonucleotide tags of polynucleotides selected in such assays. Words, or subunits, of oligonucleotide tags index submixtures...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US8168385?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8168385 - Methods and compositions for tagging and identifying polynucleotides