STN International Launches New Biosequence Database

Nucleotide and amino acid sequence database jointly produced by FIZ Karlsruhe and WIPO released

Karlsruhe, Germany FIZ Karlsruhe, one of Europes leading providers of information services, and European partner of premier science and technology online service STN International, has announced the launch of the PCTGEN database, an important new source of nucleotide and amino acid sequence information.
Containing sequence and patent application information submitted electronically to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), PCTGEN includes both the nucleotide and peptide sequences themselves, as well as associated bibliographic data as provided by patent applicants. More specifically, records include the following fields: accession number, title, document type, molecule type, patent assignee, patent and application information, organism species, sequence, sequence length, and feature table.
Jointly produced by FIZ Karlsruhe and WIPO, PCTGEN currently contains around 1.5 million records from August 2001 to date, including 1.2 million nucleic acid and 0.3 million peptide sequences.
PCTGEN is updated weekly, with new sequence information entering the database shortly after publication by WIPO. As such, the database provides a very high degree of currency. Users can also conduct current awareness alerts (SDIs), as well as sequence homology alerts, on a weekly basis.
STN International can be accessed by dialling directly into STN Classic, the proprietary online service, utilising the powerful client software STN Express with Discover!; or via STN on the Web using a standard web browser (http://stnweb.fiz-karlsruhe.de).
Both access modes provide searchers with a set of dedicated sequence search tools to enable them conduct powerful, accurate searches. Sequence searching in PCTGEN will also be integrated into STN on the Webs Sequence Search Assistant, a user-friendly interface designed for those unfamiliar with traditional command-line searching.
Further information on the file can be obtained at: ,http://www.stn-international.de/stndatabases/databases/pctgen.html,As one of the leading European providers of information services, FIZ Karlsruhe is an international scientific service institution that produces and distributes scientific and technical information services, in both printed and electronic form. It is also the European Service Centre of STN International, The Scientific & Technical Information Network.
STN International is the worlds premier online service, offering access to bibliographic, factual and full-text databases in science and technology (more than 210 at present), among them a comprehensive cluster of the worlds largest and most important patent databases.
STN International is jointly operated by FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany; Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Columbus OH, USA; and the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Tokyo.
,For more information please contact: ,FIZ Karlsruhe,STN Europe,P.O. Box 2465, 76012 Karlsruhe, Germany. ,Tel: [phone],Fax: [phone]. ,E-mail: [e-mail],URL: http://www.stn-international.de