Database and system for determining, storing and displaying gene locus information

Patent 5970500 Issued on October 19, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date:

May 15, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 856647 filed on 05/15/1997

US Classes:

707/104.1Application of database or data structure (e.g., distributed, multimedia, image)

Examiners

Primary: Choules, Jack M.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Beyer & Weaver, LLP

Foreign Patent References

WO 96/23078 WO. 08/12/1996

International Class

G06F 017/30

Abstract

Disclosed is a relational database system for storing and displaying genetic information. Associated with the database is a software system allows a user to determine the relative position of a selected gene sequence within a genome. The system allows execution of a method of displaying the genetic locus of a biomolecular sequence. The method involves providing a database including multiple biomolecular sequences, at least some of which represent open reading frames located along a contiguous sequence on an organism's genome. An open reading frame for the sequence is selected and displayed together with adjacent open reading frames located upstream and downstream in the relative positions in which they occur on the contiguous sequence.

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