Biotechnology
Being the cross-section of many disciplines, biotechnology concerns as different fields as e.g.
- Pharmaceuticals
- Agriculture
- Biosensors
- Biofuels
- Waste and Residual Waste Disposal.
The wide range of applicability of biotechnological methods and technologies is to be seen in more than 1200 scientific and technical journals worldwide. The number of patent publications that have to be classified as "biotechnological" is steeply increasing.
A central competence of WissInfo is to achieve an optimum search result by choosing the databases suitable for the particular search. Optimum in this context means to find the vital documents, exluding as many non-relevant hits as possible, and to evaluate them on demand. Particularly important databases in the field of biotechnology are Medline, Embase, Biosis (literature), Chemical Abstracts, Biotechnology Abstracts (literature and
patents) and the World Patents Index (patents).
The knowledge of known or patented nucleic acid and amino acid sequences is indispensable for many biotech enterprises. On the internet there are freely accessible databases such as Genbank, where one can find, among other things, gene or protein sequences described in patents. By using the US-American NCBI and the European EMBL resources you also have the possibility to search for similar sequences with help of the BLAST algorithm.
However, our experience shows that sequence searches conducted as thoroughly as possible cannot be done without the use of additional commercial databases. In addition to the internet resources mentioned, we therefore use databases such as GeneSeq or Registry, in order to obtain for our clients search results which are as reliable and complete as possible. With the help of these databases we are able to search for exact sequences, sequence segments or similar sequences. Of course we can also search for short nucleic acid sequences like ESTs or SNPs.
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