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February 2010

PATDPAFULL: Application and priority number formats enhanced

February 2010

STN Express Maintenance Release, Version 8.4.2, Is Now Available for Download

February 2010

INPADOCDB / INPAFAMDB: Enhancements in Jan/Feb 2010

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News Messages 2010

PATDPAFULL: Application and priority number formats enhanced 24. February 2010

In the German patent full-text database PATDPAFULL the standardization of application and priority numbers has been greatly enhanced, almost all numbers follow the STN standard formats.

As a result, duplicate removal and crossfile searching with other patent files on STN is more reliable.

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STN Express Maintenance Release, Version 8.4.2, Is Now Available for Download 17. February 2010

A new version of STN Express, Version 8.4.2, is available for download. This is a maintenance release created to fix several software issues reported since the launch of STN Express, Version 8.4, and to ensure compatibility with Windows 7. Please visit the STN Software License and Download web site...

INPADOCDB / INPAFAMDB: Enhancements in Jan/Feb 2010 03. February 2010

The INPADOC files have been enhanced in Jan/Feb 2010.

USGENE and PCTGEN: new FASTA display formats added 01. February 2010

The new sequence display formats FASTA and FASTA2 have been added to the sequence databases USGENE and PCTGEN. These FASTA display formats are widely accepted by 3rd party sequence analysis tools, so that sequence search results from USGENE and PCTGEN can directly be used for further analysis.

INSPEC adds IPC codes and author's email addresses 01. February 2010

As of January 2010 INSPEC (Information Service for Physics, Electronics and Computing), produced by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), is mapping its own indexing schemes to the WIPO IPC scheme to assign IPC codes to relevant records. Initial trials indicate that about 75% of...

Annual Reload of MEDLINE database 27. January 2010

The Medline database has been reloaded on STN.

Author abstracts indexing revised in DWPI 27. January 2010

Following customer requests the indexing of author abstracts in the DWPI database (files WPINDEX/WPIDS/WPIX) has been revised.

Match STN Content and Features to Your Information Needs, Quickly and Conveniently 13. January 2010

A new interactive, web-based STN Database Guide is now available to help you learn the rich resources STN has to offer.