Information Resources in Biotechnology
A one day seminar about database resources available free of charge from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). Databases are prepared by the partners of the SLING project, particularly EBI, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) and the European Patent Office (EPO).
The seminar will underline the worldwide cooperation among the bioinformatic institutes and patent offices allowing preparation of the most comprehensive databases with a worldwide coverage of scientific publications and of all the patent publications.
The participants of the seminar will be given the first hand information about the most effective search approaches by the speakers of institutions directly involved in the preparation of the databases. Hand on sessions are foreseen in the afternoon to accommodate the specific needs and questions of the participants.
The seminar will highlight the volume and importance of the biotechnological information published in patent documents and explain how to effectively access this information in the free of charge patent database of the European Patent office (Espacenet).
A presentation of the patent system for non specialists will be offered focusing on important questions of practical impact for researchers, for instance
When to publish
When to apply for a patent
Problems to avoid
Benefits of the Patent Publication system
The seminar will take a place at the Institute of Molecular Genetics AS
CR, Krc campus on Thursday, September 22 between 9:00 and 16:00 and is free of charge.
Looking forward to seeing you at the seminar!
Gerard Giroud (SLING)
Marek Polach (CzechBio)
Bohdan Schneider (IBT AS CR)
organizers
Pogram of the seminar (in pdf)
Time
Topic
Presenter
08:30-09:00
Registration
09:00-09:10
Introduction
Bohdan Schneider
IBT
09:10-09:25
Biotechnology in the Czech Republic and International cooperation policy
Marek Polach
CzechBio
09:25-9:40
The Patent System Today
How can patent office help you? Services of the patent office, a presentation in plain words for non-specialists..
Šimon Bednář
Patent Examiner, Czech Patent Office
09:40-9:50
The Sling project, EPO-EBI Collaborations.
Building a Bio information infrastructure. The European Union Approach.
Gérard Giroud
SLING Project Consultant
09:50-10:10
Comprehensive Bio molecular Databases.
A worldwide Cooperation among Europe, Japan and USA; extended to South Korea, China. Role of EBI, NCBI and DDBJ. Role of Patent Offices: EPO, JPO, USPTO, KIPO, SIPO
Stephane Nauche
Head, EPO Life Sciences Unit
10:10-10:40
EBI Services.
The EBI hosts a vast range of Databases and tools. The presentation will focus on EMBL-EBI’s major databases, as well as analytical tools mostly relevant to the Intellectual property word, with an extra attention to sequence related databases and tools.
Jennifer McDowall
EBI
10:40-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-11:20
Patent Sequence Databases.
The non-redundant patent sequence databases, which cover the public patent sequence data, have been enriched with additional data from the patent documents
Stephane Nauche
Head, EPO Life Sciences Unit
11:20-11:40
EBI Filing Tool- Publishing Sequences.
How to file your results at EBI and to be published in the worldwide Databases
Jennifer McDowall
EBI
11:40-12:00
Filing a Patent: the filing Tool BISSAP.
The Biological Sequence Submission Application for Patents is a new tool to facilitate the submission of biological sequences as part of patent applications. The tool handles preparation of the sequences, their verification and generation of sequence listing files. The conversion between the supported formats is an additional functionality
EPO speaker
12:00-12:20
Databases of protein sequences
The Uniprot database: preparation- cooperation- features. How to best use it
Marie-Claude Blatter
Swiss-Prot Group
12:20-12:40
Chemical Entities Databases or Search Literature articles
Small chemical entities with a biological effect. The improved version of Pubmed available through EBI
Jennifer McDowall
EBI
12:45-14:00
Lunch break
14:00-14:30
EBI – demonstration, search examples on use of EBI databases and tools
Based on requests provided by participants upon registration
Jennifer McDowall
EBI
14:30-15:00
Patent Sequence Databases- demonstration, search examples on use of EPO databases and tools.
Based on requests provided by participants upon registration
Stephane Nauche
Head, EPO Life Sciences Unit
15:00-15:30
SIB – Databases of protein sequence – demonstration, search example on use of the databases and tools.
Based on requests provided by participants upon registration
Marie-Claude Blatter
Swiss-Prot Group
15:30-16:00
Questions/Answers. Recommendations. Conclusion
All speakers