title: PatGen--a consolidated resource for searching genetic patent sequences.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  PatGen can be searched at http://www.patgendb.com
  
  
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  rjdrouse@patentinformatics.com.
authors.affiliation: PatentInformatics, PO Box 948586, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. rjdrouse@patentinformatics.com
authors.forename: Richard J D
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Rouse
authors.forename: Jesus
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Castagnetto
authors.forename: Roland H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Niedner
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000379:methods; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D016208:Databases, Factual; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010330:Patents as Topic