Biotech Patent Attorneys, Have A Look At Your New Sequence Listing

A new WIPO sequence listing standard is in the works, called ST.26. It provides a modernization of the old format ST.25. It is a much more detailed and complex standard, and it switches the enabling software from text only format to XML format. This article provides a brief overview.

The New Format

Let's take a small peptide, glucagon, as an example. It is 29 amino acids long, and helps release glucose from storage into your blood. A sequence listing for glucagon peptide would look like this under the current WIPO Standard ST.25 (the sample below is edited and formatted for brevity):

The sequence listing will look something like this under the new standard ST.26 (the sample below is edited and formatted for brevity):