Essentially, means plus function claiming allows the drafter to claim the invention based on functionality rather than the more traditional (and preferred) claiming technique that employs structure ...

Structural alignment is a form of sequence alignment based on comparison of shape. These alignments attempt to establish equivalences between two or more polymer structures based on their shape and ...

Computational and statistical analysis has formed a large component of the biophysical efforts put forth to understand protein structure and function, due to the diversity and complexity of their ...