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GENESEQTM FASTAlert is a companion database to GENESEQTM and has been designed to act as an early warning system, enabling rapid searching of sequences to ensure exclusivity. Records contain essential information only and are published as quickly as possible, within two weeks of the patent publication date.

New sequences remain in GENESEQ FASTAlert until they are transferred to GENESEQ. At this point every sequence is annotated with the comprehensive information which is characteristic of GENESEQ.

With GENESEQ FASTAlert, you can:

• Access sequences months before they appear anywhere else — GENESEQ FASTAlert brings you nucleic acid and amino acid sequences from patent documents within just two weeks of publication date.
• Perform accurate searches of patent data — Data in GENESEQ FASTAlert are taken from printed patent documents, which contain the legally recognized version of sequences.
• Search data compiled by experts — Sequences in GENESEQ FASTAlert are intellectually selected by Derwent's molecular genetics specialists to ensure novelty and relevance to therapeutic, diagnostics and other biotechnology research.
  

Why choose GENESEQ FASTAlert?

• Final data not available elsewhere — Comparisons with public sequence databases have shown that over 50% of Derwent's sequence information is not present in public databases (SWISS-PROT and EMBL).

• New sequences from patent documents are added within two weeks of publication date.
• Updated with four to five thousand new sequences every week.
• Available in FASTA format.
• Each record contains: Patent Title; Patent Number; Patent Assignee; Patent Publication Date; Sequence Number, Earliest Priority Date; Database Entry Date; and the Sequence itself. In the first instance the Patent Title is the original patent title. The original patent title is updated to the Derwent Title when it becomes available. There is a qualifier field which lets you know when that has happened.
• Sequences in both GENESEQ and GENESEQ FASTAlert are taken from the full patent specification — the legally recognized format.