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 comprised 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 for scientific research use, for diagnostic scientific use, and for clinical laboratory research use; clinical diagnostic reagents for laboratory use; reagent kits and reagent 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