A Beginner’s Guide to Sequence Listing for Professionals Seeking Biotechnology Patents: Inventions in biotechnology involve gene mutation, gene sequencing, and regulating, expressing, or silencing of genes. Their patent specifications require a detailed description of the sequences. Therefore, when inventors file such a patent, all the DNA and protein sequences need to be entered into the patent specifications and are required to have a particular structure instead of the raw format. This is known as Sequence Listing, which is basically a process of taking the raw sequences and entering them in the required format as per the guidelines of the patent offices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A gene consists of a chain of\npolynucleotides consisting of the nucleotides adenine (A), thymine (T)\/uracil\n(U), cytosine(C) and guanine (G) that is code for amino acids. A protein\nconsists of amino acids (i.e., 20 amino acids that occur naturally). A special\none-letter code represents each amino acid. A sequence listing recognizes the\ngene or protein by means of a “SEQ ID NO.” (E.g. SEQ ID NO: 1) and\nprovides the whole sequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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