GenBank patented sequences

In NCBFs view, the main purpose of listing patented sequences in GenBank is to be able to retrieve sequences by similarity searches that may serve to locate patents related to a given sequence. To make a legal determination in the case, however, one would still have to examine the full text of the patent. To evaluate the biology of the sequence, one generally must locate information other than that contained in the patent. Thus, the critical linkage is between the sequence and its patent number. 

Sequence information, including GenBank and patent annotations Property data, including spectral diagrams Commercial source information from chemical suppher catalogs Regulatory information Editor notes... 

Nucleic acid and protein sequence analysis, including secondary structure prediction. GenBank, EMBL, SWISS-PROT, PIR, PROSITE, NASITE, and Vector-Bank databases on CD-ROM. Macintosh. PC/GENE for sequence analysis on PCs. IntelliGenetics Suite Sequence Analysis Software and GENESEQ database with patented protein and nucleic acid sequences. Sun and VAX. 

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