 Biol Direct. 2007; 2: 16. Published online May 31, 2007. doi: 
10.1186/1745-6150-2-16 PMCID: PMC1891274  nuID: a universal
naming scheme of oligonucleotides for Illumina, Affymetrix, and
other microarrays    Oligonucleotide probes that are sequence
identical may have different identifiers between manufacturers
and even between different versions of the same company's
microarray; and sometimes the same identifier is reused and
represents a completely different oligonucleotide, resulting in
ambiguity and potentially mis-identification of the genes
hybridizing to that probe.   We have devised a unique, non-
degenerate encoding scheme that can be used as a universal
representation to identify an oligonucleotide across
manufacturers. We have named the encoded representation 'nuID',
for nucleotide universal identifier. Inspired by the fact that
the raw sequence of the oligonucleotide is the true definition
of identity for a probe, the encoding algorithm uniquely and
non-degenerately transforms the sequence itself i