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June 01, 2007

GenomeQuest Announces New Sequence Search Web Application and World's Largest Patent Sequence Database

    By Donald Zuhn --

Gqlogoweb On Friday, Massachusetts-based GenomeQuest, Inc. announced via the GenomeQuest Blog that GenomeQuest® 4.0, the bioinformatics company's new web-enabled application for genetic sequence data search and analysis, would soon be released.  The new version of the application will allow subscribers to add their own sequence data and annotations to GenomeQuest's collection of sequences, which president and CEO Ron Ranauro noted outnumbers GenBank's collection.  In addition, GenomeQuest has rewritten the new version of the GenomeQuest application as a web application in which every sequence record, search query, and result exists as a web page with a persistent Uniform Resource Locator (URL), thereby permitting records, queries, and results to be bookmarked, linked, tagged, and e-mailed.  The new web-enabled version also allows subscribers to readily re-visit and update their searches.  According to GenomeQuest, the new application is to be released sometime this summer.

GenomeQuest also announced via the GenomeQuest Blog that its GQ-PAT sequence repository (i.e., sequences culled from U.S. and worldwide patents and published applications) had surpassed some 66 million sequences, making it the world's largest patent sequence database.  Including sequences obtained from major public sequence repositories, GenomeQuest's sequence database now totals some 137 million sequences.  While GemomeQuest Vice President and General Manager Dr. Michael J. McManus observed that "even GenBank has only about 4 million sequence patent records," it should be noted that GenomeQuest's true competition is not the GenBank collection of patent sequences, but rather the Thomson Derwent GENESEQ (DGENE) database, a collection of sequences extracted from the Derwent World Patents Index of patent documents published by 41 patent offices worldwide.  According to Thomson Derwent, the GENESEQ database currently "[i]ncludes over three million records derived from over 60,500 patent applications."  No information, however, could be found as to how that number of records translates into the number of sequences present in the GENESEQ collection.

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For additional information regarding these announcements, please see GenomeQuest's original press releases from May 1, 2007 and May 7, 2007.

Posted at 11:27 PM in Biotech/Pharma News, Patent Prosecution |

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