PatGen—a consolidated resource for searching genetic patent sequences

• Published in: Bioinformatics Vol. 21; no. 8; pp. 1707 - 1708
• Main Authors: Rouse, Richard J. D., Castagnetto, Jesus, Niedner, Roland H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 15.04.2005; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Abstracting and Indexing as Topic - methods; Biological and medical sciences; Database Management Systems; Databases, Bibliographic; Databases, Factual; Databases, Genetic; Documentation - methods; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Genetic Engineering; Information Storage and Retrieval - methods; Mathematics in biology. Statistical analysis. Models. Metrology. Data processing in biology (general aspects); Natural Language Processing; Patents as Topic; Patents; Integrated database; Genetic resource; Genomics; Proteomics; Genetics; Patent rights; Bioinformatics
• ISSN: 1367-4803; 1460-2059; 1367-4811
• DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti202

Compared to the wealth of online resources covering genomic, proteomic and derived data the Bioinformatics community is rather underserved when it comes to patent information related to biological sequences. The current online resources are either incomplete or rather expensive. This paper describes, PatGen, an integrated database containing data from bioinformatic and patent resources. This effort addresses the inconsistency of publicly available genetic patent data coverage by providing access to a consolidated dataset. Availability: PatGen can be searched at http://www.patgendb.com Contact: rjdrouse@patentinformatics.com