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DGENE, PCTGEN, and USGENE enhanced with new homology sequence search option
A new option for refining homology sequence search answer sets is now available for the RUN BLAST and RUN GETSIM commands in DGENE, PCTGEN, and USGENE. You may now refine your sequence search answer sets by either:
- Number of answers
- Minimum percentage of the query self score
To help you determine the minimum percentage of the query self score by which to refine, the query self score value is now displayed with the best answer score value in the sequence search results. The SCORE format for RUN BLAST has also been enhanced to display the percentage of the query self score value in addition to the actual bit score value.
The new minimum percentage option allows you to quickly focus your results to the most relevant answers, which is particularly useful when you are working with large answer sets. This new option is available for BLAST and GETSIM searches, including BATCH and ALERT searches.
For a detailed explanation and search examples, enter HELP CHANGE at an arrow prompt (=>) in DGENE, PCTGEN, or USGENE, or visit:
www.stn-international.com/New_sequence_search.html
For additional information about these databases, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheets.
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INPAFAMDB now available on STN for patent family searching
The International Patent Family Database (INPAFAMDB) is now available on STN as a companion database to the International Patent Documentation Database (INPADOCDB). INPAFAMDB is particularly useful when performing comprehensive prior art searches in 1st level data using free text (from titles and abstracts) and/or classifications (IPC, ECLA, ICO, IDT, and national classifications, including US).
INPAFAMDB and INPADOCDB share the same source data and content but differ with respect to data structure:
- INPAFAMDB - all data belonging to one invention (one family) are indexed as one record
- INPADOCDB - all publications from one authority for one application are indexed as one record
Patent families are defined in INPAFAMDB as the extended INPADOC patent family, i.e., all publications that are directly or indirectly linked via a priority application number.
Approximately 36 million records (inventions) with 65 million publications are currently available in INPAFAMDB. INPAFAMDB records include:
- Bibliographic information for all family members from 81 patent authorities, including 12.6 million English abstracts for 8.5 million families (approximately 30% of the database)
- Fully integrated legal status for 51 patent authorities, including the seven categories assigned by FIZ Karlsruhe to simplify legal status searches
- Citations from 13 patent authorities
Display formats in INPAFAMDB are identical to INPADOCDB. However, fields and formats present family data and incur family charges, e.g., BIB displays the bibliographic data for all publications from the family. For details, enter HELP FORMAT and HELP COST at an arrow prompt (=>) in INPAFAMDB.
INPAFAMDB has been added to the ALLBIB, AUTHORS, CORPSOURCE, HPATENTS, and PATENTS database clusters on STN.
A new learning database for INPAFAMDB (LINPAFAMDB) is also available on STN, covering the same documents as the learning database for INPADOCDB (LINPADOCDB). LINPAFAMDB has been added to the LEARNING database cluster on STN.
For a details about INPAFAMDB, visit:
www.stn-international.de/archive/stnews/recent_articles/INPAFAMDB.pdf
For additional information about INPAFAMDB and LINPAFAMDB, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheets.
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Updated 7/28/2008 11:10:18 AM
