1 Assays and reagents for use in genetic research; diagnostic reagents for scientific or research use; diagnostic reagents for clinical or medical laboratory use; reagents and reagent kits composed primarily of nucleic acids, naturally occurring or modified nucleotides, enzymes, labels, and buffers, all for the purpose of preparing, detecting, sequencing, and analyzing nucleic acids and other biological molecules, samples of biological molecules, genes, genomes, nucleotide sequence variants and modifications, regulation, transcription, and expression in the fields of scientific, diagnostic and clinical research; reagent kits and beads with attached biomolecules, comprised primarily of oligonucleotides and other nucleic acids, natural and modified nucleotides, polypeptides, buffers, labels, and substrates, for clinical diagnostic laboratory purposes