G16B BIOINFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR GENETIC OR PROTEIN-RELATED DATA PROCESSING IN COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Introduced: January 2019
Description
G16B covers information and communication technology systems and software specifically designed for processing, analyzing, and managing genetic, genomic, and protein-related data in computational molecular biology. This includes DNA/RNA sequencing data analysis, sequence alignment algorithms, protein structure prediction, gene expression analysis, and bioinformatics databases. The classification encompasses tools for comparative genomics, phylogenetic analysis, mutation identification, and integration of multi-omics datasets. G16B excludes general-purpose computing or data processing (G16F) and focuses exclusively on applications tailored to biological sequence and structural information analysis.
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 11 subcodes exist in both systems.
1 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
IPC defines codes here since 2019.
Child Classifications
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- G16B 10/00 ICT specially adapted for evolutionary bioinformatics, e.g. phylogenetic tree construction or analysis since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16B 15/00 ICT specially adapted for analysing two-dimensional [2D] or three-dimensional [3D] molecular structures, e.g. structural or functional relations or structure alignment since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16B 20/00 ICT specially adapted for functional genomics or proteomics, e.g. genotype-phenotype associations since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16B 25/00 ICT specially adapted for hybridisation; ICT specially adapted for gene or protein expression since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16B 30/00 ICT specially adapted for sequence analysis involving nucleotides or amino acids since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16B 35/00 ICT specially adapted for in silico combinatorial libraries of nucleic acids, proteins or peptides since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16B 40/00 ICT specially adapted for biostatistics; ICT specially adapted for bioinformatics-related machine learning or data mining, e.g. knowledge discovery or pattern finding since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16B 45/00 ICT specially adapted for bioinformatics-related data visualisation, e.g. displaying of maps or networks since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16B 5/00 ICT specially adapted for modelling or simulations in systems biology, e.g. gene-regulatory networks, protein interaction networks or metabolic networks since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16B 50/00 ICT programming tools or database systems specially adapted for bioinformatics since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16B 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
Class G16,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 4,707
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 1,767
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 1,458
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1,144
- ILLUMINA US 1,097
- SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DE 1,074
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS 1,026
- FUJIFILM JP 990
- PING AN TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 892
- ROCHE CH 864
Top Applicants (CPC)
Class G16,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 7,379
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 2,740
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 2,388
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS 1,849
- SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DE 1,697
- FUJIFILM JP 1,618
- ILLUMINA US 1,335
- ROCHE CH 1,264
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA US 1,181
- DEXCOM US 1,150