Abstract: Provided herein are nanochannel devices fabricated in a substrate for holding an internal construct in a channel, wherein the construct comprises DNA, with the construct positioned so that a joinable end of the DNA is extending outside the channel into an accessible inlet reservoir. Also provided herein are methods for long DNA assembly, comprising introducing a shuttle with a block group in a nanochannel, introducing joinable DNA segment solution, performing a joining reaction, and advancing the shuttle in the channel while still leaving the tail in the channel.

Abstract: Provided are methods of labeling and analyzing features along at least one macro molecule such as a linear biopolymer, including methods of mapping the distribution and frequency of specific sequence motifs or the chemical or proteomic modification state of such sequence motifs along individual unfolded nucleic acid molecules. The present invention also provides methods of identifying signature patterns of sequence or epigenetic variations along such labeled macro molecules for direct massive parallel single molecule level analysis. The present invention also provides systems suitable for high throughput analysis of such labeled macro mo lecules.