The policy — in the form of first Office Actions on a series of applications for patents on expressed sequence tags, ESTs — could greatly complicate basic gene therapy research by substantially allowing patents for small sequences of a gene that may later be used by the patent holder to corner ownership and uses of entire genes. (sciencemag.org)
During his undergraduate training at the University of California, Los Angeles, he was drawn to clinical research, leading to a Ph.D. at Boston University where he combined clinical research and computers to establish new algorithms and approaches for studying disease pathways by compiling gene expression profiles using Expressed Sequence Tags. (sciencemag.org)
Expressed sequence tag analysis of genes expressed in the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians. (jgenomics.com)