NASDAP provids FREE services of bioinformatics tools for exploring Chinese gene patent.
There were neither available database nor deep investigation on gene patent or patented gene in China before. But the National Bio-Sequence Database of Chinese Patent (NASDAP), comprising 123218 patented bio-sequences within 8563 Chinese patents(by Feb1,2006), has been constructed in this work now. Genes, microarrays, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), motifs and any other objects of Chinese patent are involved in.,and BLAST-based search or motif scan are carried out to navigate these objects, which can serve as an indispensable bioinformatics platform for setting up of research work, tracing of the advancement in patented genes and facilitating the decision of both applicants and assigners of gene patent. Furthermore, data-mining were performed to explore the life cycle of patented genes which is under the selection pressure of both nature and society. The preference of applicants and assigners as well as the strategies on carrying out multi-application without intellectual property (IP) crash were also discussed. Such exploitation presents a landscape of Chinese gene patent, and gives comprehensive consults on drawing IP strategies in the areas of pharmaceutics, diagnostics and agriculture.
the database and the web interface is implemented by Dr. Lun YANG 1,2 and Prof.Langlai XU 1
1 College of life sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095.2 Nanjing Ye$u Bio-engineering Co. Ltd. , Nanjing, 210095. |
