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February 11, 2010
Boston, MA. USGENE is featured at the Sequence Searching on STN Workshop.
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February 10, 2010
Cambridge, MA. SequenceBase Corporation sponsors the fourth annual PIUG Boston Biotechnology meeting, focused on patent sequence searching.
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Dec 1, 2009
Japan Assoc. for International Chemical Information (JAICI) now markets in-house version of USGENE. Agreement gives the Japan Association for International Chemical Information (JAICI) the mandate to operate as SequenceBase Corp. marketing agent for subscriptions to USGENE in-house version and data available for customized subscription download.
Read the press release New percent identity feature for sorting BLAST answer sets in USGENE on STN
November 30, 2009
A new sequence sorting feature for BLAST answer sets is now available in USGENE on STN. This new sorting option is a great support for reviewing large sequence answer sets and makes the identification of relevant sequences much more efficient and reliable. The enhanced sorting functionality allows you to sort a BLAST answer set according to local percent identity (IDENT). Additional sorting with this BLAST parameter is especially useful to identify short, highly similar sequences with a low over all BLAST similarity score. The new sorting feature is available for the results of all BLAST online, offline batch and Alert search options.
Read more from FIZ Karlsruhe Enhanced bibliographic and sequence information in USGENE
July 20, 2009
The USPTO Genetic Sequence Database (USGENE) now includes even more extensive bibliographic and text search options for refining U.S. patent sequence searches. USGENE sequence records now include:
- Priority application information, including priority application numbers (PRN) and dates (PRD)
- U.S. related application information, including U.S. related application numbers and dates
- Calculated patent expiration date (XPD) and patent term adjustment information (NTE, PTA) for issued patents
- A concise one-line Sequence Description (DESC), for improved efficiency when reviewing search results
On STN, the new data fields are all fully searchable and incorporated into the standard USGENE display formats BIB, BRIEF and ALL. In addition, the Sequence Description (DESC) field is now part of the free-of-charge TRIAL display format, for even faster relevance checking of USGENE search results.Press Release
May 4, 2009
FIZ Karlsruhe now markets in-house version of USGENE®, the USPTO Genetic Sequences Database, in Europe. Agreement gives FIZ Karlsruhe the mandate to operate as SequenceBase Corporation’s marketing agent for USGENE® in-house version / USGENE® data available for customized subscription download / expert customer support.
Read the press release Higher answer limits and a new HIT display format for USGENE on STN
May 3, 2009
Due to the increasing size of USGENE, the answer number limit for a Sequence
Code Match (SCM) GETSEQ search has been raised to 250,000 answers, and a new
free-of-charge HIT (synonym ALIGN) display format has been implemented on STN.
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February 12, 2009
Boston, MA. USGENE is featured at the Sequence Searching on STN Workshop.
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February 11, 2009
Martin Goffman, President and CEO of SequenceBase Corporation has been invited to give a presentation on "The Genesis of USGENE" at the 2009 Patent Information Users Group Boston Biotechnology Meeting. His co-author is Robert Austin, US Representative of FIZ Karlsruhe. This paper will deal with the genesis of USGENE from initial concept, launch on STN and subsequent evolution into an in-house subscription database. Details of the content and utility of USGENE will also be explored. Information professionals are always in need of new tools and databases to help them do their jobs faster, better, and at less cost to their employer. As described in a recent edition of ONLINE magazine (http://www.infotoday.com/online/nov08/Sabroski.shtml or PDF), USGENE was created to help meet this need for patent sequence searchers, by providing a unified, timely and comprehensive USPTO patent sequence database.
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Nov/Dec 2008
From Concept to Content: The Genesis of USGENE. This article is reprinted in its entirety from the Nov/Dec 2008 issue of ONLINE magazine, published by Information Today, Inc.
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Two Dates: October 23, 2008 and October 28, 2008
Synergies and Surprises - USGENE and DGENE Multifile Patent Sequence Searching on STN. The launch of USGENE on STN by the SequenceBase Corporation and FIZ Karlsruhe in July 2007 provided a unique and powerful additional resource for STN patent sequence searchers. This e-Seminar will focus on the importance and practicalities of comprehensive multifile searching for U.S. patent sequence data using both USGENE and GENESEQTM (DGENE) on STN.
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October 15, 2008
Effective Patent Sequence Searching on STN. In this workshop, learn how to most efficiently use key patent sequence database resources on STN, including USGENE. Learn about database features & content, Sequence Code Match searching, BLAST & FASTA similarity searching, and advanced techniques for combining multi-file patent sequence searches.
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Patent Sequence Location (PSL) is now available in USGENE
October 7, 2008
SequenceBase Corporation has now incorporated a Patent Sequence Location (PSL) field in the USGENE database supplied to our in-house subscription customers.
USGENE® is our ground-breaking resource for life-science intellectual property professionals, providing unrivaled searchable access to all available peptide and nucleotide sequences from the published applications and issued patents of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
USGENE data are available for customized subscription download, to suit various in-house molecular biology patent information needs, or can be searched directly via the world's premier Sci-Tech online information service STN® International.
We will be available at the PIUG NE Meeting to discuss this and other new features of the USGENE database with both our current and potential new subscription customers.
Information about USGENE in-house subscriptions is available at:
http://www.sequencebase.com/data-subscriptions-sequences e-Seminars
Two Dates: June 10, 2008 and June 17, 2008
Designed for new and existing users, this e-Seminar is designed to demonstrate how the features of command line searching, combined with the addition of new USGENE content, make STN an indispensible resource for effective freedom-to-operate, prior art, validity and infringement patent sequence searches.
Link to e-Seminar slides (PDF) New sequence search interaction to refine answer sets on STN
May 25, 2008
Enhanced capabilities for refining homology sequence search answer sets have been implemented in USGENE on STN. Previously it was possible to choose the number of answers from a sequence search to be kept for further processing. Now an alternative option of minimum percentage of the homology query self score value may be applied as the chosen cut-off point, providing for greater flexibility and improved user-interaction.
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May 18, 2008
2008 PIUG Annual Conference Crystal City, VA. PIUG Annual Meeting Workshop: The USPTO Genetic Sequence Database, USGENE, on STN.
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February 15, 2008
Boston, MA. USGENE is featured at the Sequence Searching on STN Workshop.
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February 14, 2008
Cambridge, MA. SequenceBase Corporation sponsors the second annual PIUG Boston Biotechnology meeting, primarily focused on sequence searching.
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February 14, 2008
Edison, NJ, USA / Karlsruhe, Germany. Press Release announcing significant improvement to the timeliness of USGENE to within only 3 days of publication by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).
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July, 29, 2007
Edison, NJ, USA / Karlsruhe, Germany. Press Release announcing the launch of The USPTO Genetic Sequence Database, USGENE® on STN®.
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