Highlight: Upgraded PatSeq Finder
We have released a newly upgraded version of the PatSeq Finder sequence search tool.
This version provides a ground up redesign of both the search backend and user interface.
Improvements include:
- improved search form, with short query parameter optimization
- advanced filtering capabilities, including many sequence similarity and patent bibliographic attributes
- multi-field sorting
- export of results including patent and sequence similarity meta data, in Word and Excel formats
- download of raw non-redundant BLAST result files
- advanced security with encryption of query and result data at rest.
Highlight: Public Domain Similarities
For each patent sequence, we have started to track similar and/or identical sequences in the public domain (NCBI GenBank and RefSeq). For each sequence and matching species the highest scoring match is displayed.
This information is provided in a new
homology column of a sequence listing table in the sequence tab of a biological patent. For example:
https://www.lens.org/lens/patent/US_2012_0142071_A1/sequences. The mouse-over tooltip provides further background information detailing the sequence similarity, as well as link outs to the corresponding public sequence database entries.
Highlight: Sequence occurence details
We have also added in the sequence listing table in the sequence tab of a biological patent, the
occurrence information, providing details on:
a) how often a sequence occurs in the entire PatSeq database
b) the number of distinct simple or extended families that disclose or reference a sequence in the claims section.
For further exploration, linkouts to the corresponding documents and simple families are provided.
