System and method for nucleic acid amplification

A system for generating a population of amplified concatamer products, comprising a means for performing a method for generating a population of amplified concatamer products, comprising:

• amplifying a template nucleic acid molecule using a first nucleic acid primer immobilized on a solid phase substrate and a second nucleic acid primer in solution to generate a population of substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule immobilized on the solid phase substrate;
• amplifying the population of substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule using a concatamer primer that comprises a first region complementary to a sequence of an end region of the population of substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule and a second region to generate a population of immobilized concatamer products of the substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule.