On Oct 8th 2013, Medicinal Genomics and Courtagen scientists published a method to navigate 1000s of human gene patents. The technique likely impact non human gene patents as well.
60 days later Altmetrics has it classified as in the top 5% of articles ever tracked.
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n10/abs/nbt.2703.html
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