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nucl > 17.5m sequences
prot > 4.9m sequences
GenBank
ENA
DDBJ
EPO
USPTO JPO
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After patent application date,
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Sequence data from patent literature
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5. Patent Sequence records
Universal Protein Resource
(UniProt)
Non-redundant Patent
Sequence Databases
European Nucleotide Archive
(ENA, formerly EMBL-Bank)
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6. ENA
• ENA-Annotation >124m sequences
• Includes patent class (PAT): EPO, USTPO, JPO, KIPO
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• ENA
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raw data archives
ENA-Annotation
Trace Archive
Sequence Read Archive
+
• Dates include: date sequence went public,
date of last revision
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Patent sequence record in ENA
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reference
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8. UniProt
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• UniParc >23m sequences
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• Composed of 4 sections
• UniParc
• UniProtKB
• UniMES
• UniRef
• Dates include: date sequence went public,
date of last revision
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Metagenomic
Sequence clusters
9. Patent sequence record in UniProt
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Sequence
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13. Sequence archives
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• ENA nucleotide sequence version archive (SVA)
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• UniSave – UniProt sequence/annotation version archive
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18. EB-eye: text search
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WO0146262
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WO0146262
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