Prioritizing patent sequence search results using annotation-rich data Original Research Article

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) provides a free-access sequence search service that combines some of the most comprehensive, annotation-rich resources with a broad range of search and analysis tools. These resources contain patent abstracts, patent chemical compounds, patent sequences and patent equivalents extracted from the EPO, USPTO, JPO and KIPO, in addition to non-patent data. Patent protein and nucleotide sequence data are also available as annotation-enriched non-redundant datasets that clearly display priority dates. Search results are linked to a wide array of specialized databases and, for proteins, functional predictions that add in-depth annotation to help prioritize results when building a claim, without the need to search multiple databases.