Don’t Miss Antibody Sequences In Patents With These 4 Simple Steps!

How do you currently search for antibody sequences? Do you search for them with key words? Scroll through patent tables to locate the sequence you are interested in and where it is within the patent? In my opinion, extracting sequences from patents using these old, outdated methods are very slow, inefficient, and difficult. Fortunately, using PatSnap Bio this couldn’t be easier! A method that I use to make this process as efficient as possible is SERS – Search, Extract, Refine & Save.

The days of trolling through patents to identify valuable sequences is over!

1. Search

Before we can begin extracting our sequences, we first need to find some relevant patent data, and so the first step is to do a SEARCH! This can be done through your favourite PatSnap search tool (I know, it can be hard to choose!) and as long as we end up with a bunch of patents that are ready to have all their sequence data easily extracted it will be smooth sailing from here on out. You can even do this from a search you have previously saved to a workspace! 

Calm seas straight ahead Captain! 

2. Extract

Now that we have a data set prepped, we can begin EXTRACTing all the sequences from the patents that we are interested in. This process couldn’t be easier using our Bio Sequence Extraction tool, which can be done one patent at a time or by selecting up to 100 patents in one go.

Once we have done that, in the pop-up box we can click on Extract Sequences that will then take these sequences into PatSnap Bio from the title, abstract, claims and description, or just claims, the choice is up to you! A lot of organisations find success using this extraction method as allows them to quickly identify claimed sequences for FTO searches.

3. Refine

Once in PatSnap Bio, it is very easy to quickly find all sequences from the patents that are related to Antibodies. We can do this by moving to the REFINEment column on the left and under Antibody selecting “yes” and pressing “refine”. Now that we have all our antibody sequences extracted from our patents in once place, saving them back to a workspace is a piece of cake!

The piece of cake I was talking about. Funny, right?

4. Save

The last thing to do now that we have our nicely collected data is to SAVE it, allowing us to access it without needing to go through the SERS process again. To do that we can press “select all” and in the pop up on the bottom left select “save sequence” to save these sequences to a workspace of your choosing.

And that is it! We have successfully and easily extracted our antibody sequences from our patents and saved them to a workspace using the SERS method. You can now start looking at these sequences in more detail, including all the patents that are relating to them (not just the ones extracted) and being able to conduct a Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) to compare sequences directly together. Just remember SERS – Search, Extract, Refine & Save!

But how do you find antibody sequences in patents? Do you have a better, more efficient way of doing this? If so get in the comments! I would love to hear from you!