As of November 13, 2026
Roadmap
The work planned for Sequences, by quarter. Plans can change. The release notes record what each release added.
2026 Q4
October to December 2026
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API tokens and batches for programs
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.38.0
Personal API tokens for programs, batches of up to 100 searches, and an OpenAPI 3.1 description of the routes a program uses. See Programs and API tokens.
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Results by applicant
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.39.0
The Applicants tab groups a search's patents by applicant, with each one's publications, earliest date and best identity. Spellings that differ only in case, accents, punctuation or a legal ending such as Inc or GmbH share a row. You can join names that still differ, and a row can link to the applicant's record in the Research Organization Registry. See By applicant.
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Paper dates and citations from PubMed
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.40.0
Each paper on a hit reads as its PubMed citation, with its PubMed ID and DOI, and is dated by the day it first came out, online or in print. Published before and a hit's earliest date use that day instead of the year alone. See Papers.
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Retraction marks
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.40.0
A paper that was retracted, drew an expression of concern or was reinstated shows a mark with the notice's day and its source: PubMed, the Retraction Watch Database, or both. The paper keeps its place and its date.
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Draft sentences for each kept reference
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.41.0
For each publication a case keeps, the case drafts up to four sentences from stored facts: the alignment, the claim's identity threshold, the publication date against the filing date, and the genes and diseases the paper names. You accept, edit or reject each sentence, and the report prints the ones you accept or edit. The same facts always give the same sentences. See Cases.
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Applicant watches and portfolio export
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.42.0
A watch can follow an applicant as well as a search, and lists the applicant's new publications after each weekly addition. You can export one applicant's publications with their sequences, and the case report has a section by applicant. See Watches.
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Install kit for AWS (beta)
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.43.0
A CloudFormation template and a script that set up the server edition in your own AWS account: the server, its disks, its network rules and its role, and with sign-in an HTTPS load balancer. The server copies each snapshot from your S3 bucket and checks it against its SHA-256 list before the service starts. See In your AWS account (beta).
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US published applications, each week
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.72.0
The patent sets hold US published applications, each with its publication number, kind code, publication date, applicant, title, filing date and priority claims. Each week's applications arrive as an addition to the snapshot, so Main plus New under Collection covers the latest week. See Sets.
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Clinical context, an add-on
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.45.0
A protein hit that is a drug target shows the drugs that act on it, the diseases they are studied for, the highest clinical stage and the clinical trials, each linked to its public source. An add-on runs only on a server whose settings name it, and a server that names none holds none of its data. The hosted service runs no add-ons.
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Funding trail, an add-on
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.46.0
The papers on a hit list the NIH awards their grants match, each linked to NIH RePORTER, and their other grants as PubMed lists them. The page draws no conclusion from them. Like clinical context, it runs only on a server whose settings name it, and the hosted service runs no add-ons. Since 0.48.0 it can also show what a hit's US published applications state about federally sponsored research.
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Earliest publications first, and filing dates in the date filter
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.49.0
Publications that tie on a sort list the earliest first. Published before also keeps a sequence when one of its US or WO publications was filed, or claims priority, before your date. Programs can list a search's patents by family. See Filters and sorting.
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A case's prior art date, and plans that search every set
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.50.0
A case keeps its application number and prior art date, and new plan searches look for what was published before that date. A drafted plan searches every set on the server that holds the finding's type, and a locked plan of any size runs to the end by itself. See Cases.
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Results as one-line rows beside a detail pane
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.51.0
On Patents and Alignments, each result is one line. Select a row to read all of it in its pane, mark it and move to the next without leaving the list, with the mouse or the keys. See Results.
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One search across several sets, for programs
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.52.0
POST /api/groupsruns one search across 2 to 8 sets and gives one list of what they found, where a patent or database entry that several sets found is one row. See Programs and API tokens. -
Patent families on Patents
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.53.0
With Families under Group, each row on Patents is one patent family, kept or excluded as one. With Published before set, the later publications of the same sequences fold into one line under the list. See By patent.
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Suggested searches
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.54.0
The search page offers real public sequences, such as GLP-1 and human insulin's gene, that run with one click. Their results show two or three things to try next. See Suggested searches.
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Sample results before sign-in
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.55.0
Real searches of public sequences, saved and shown read-only, that anyone can read before signing in. The sign-in page links to them when a server has one. See A sample result.
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Listings inside a publication's full-text XML
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.56.0
Import in Sequence tools reads the sequence listing inside a patent publication's full-text XML, as in publications of 2001 to 2004. Programs can also find their jobs by name, set or state. See Listings and the ST.26 check.
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Search several sets at once
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.57.0
Check several sets under Search in and they run as one combined search, followed in one status bar. The result opens on one list of references, with a chip for each set that found each one. See Search several sets at once.
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References under each claim feature, ranked by fixed rules
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.59.0
A case's References step, between Run and Report, lists every reference its searches found under the claim feature that found it. References rank by fixed rules: whether the best match meets the claim's threshold, how much of the claimed region it covers, its date against the prior art date, then Query Match and E-value. See The References step.
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Claim suggestions from a language model your server runs
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.60.0
A case's Review step can ask the model for claim features the rules missed, with the details a search needs. The button is marked "(Pilot)", and none of its suggestions counts until you accept it. The case records each call. Suggestions stay off until the server's settings name a model. See Cases.
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The search page reads what you paste or drop
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.61.0
Query type reads DNA / RNA or Protein from what you paste, and Search in follows it. A dropped FASTA file fills the query box, a sequence listing opens its SEQ ID NO picker, and a publication's XML with claims starts a case. Each result has an address that opens it again. See Query type.
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Result files from BLAST+ and FASTA36 in a case
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.63.0
Bring the result file of a search you ran outside Sequences into a case: BLAST+ tabular, XML and JSON output, FASTA36 tabular output, or a CSV file with a header row. Each match joins its patent publication and SEQ ID NO, and a row that does not join is listed with its reason. The file opens like one of your own searches. See Result files from other programs.
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A case's decisions as CSV and JSON files
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.64.0
Download decisions (CSV) and Download decisions (JSON) in a case's Report step save every decision in the case: each claim feature, each accept, reject and edit with who made it and when, and each version of the plan. Each decision gives the number and SHA-256 of its event in the case log, so you can check the file against the log. See The decisions file.
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Summaries from fixed templates, for you to review
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.65.0
A case writes short summaries from fixed templates and its own facts: of what the description says about each claimed SEQ ID NO, of each top reference and of each search. No language model takes part, so the same facts always give the same words. Every number in a summary is checked against the facts, and the report prints the ones you accept or edit. See Summaries.
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An audit log for your security team
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.66.0
With sign-in on, a server keeps an audit log of sign-ins, failed sign-ins, API tokens and each start with its settings. An admin exports it with every case's log as JSON lines for a SIEM, a day or a time range at a time. Each event carries the hash of the one before it, so a changed or missing event shows. See Audit export for a SIEM.
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Claims as filed and as amended
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.67.0
A case keeps each set of claims you import, as filed, amended, published or granted, and reads claims from a Word file too. What changed compares two sets claim by claim, a locked plan names the set it follows, and the case report and the decisions file name that set. See Sets of claims.
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Queries in PIR format
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.68.0
A query in PIR (NBRF) format, whose records start with a line such as
>P1;, works wherever FASTA does: in the query box, as a dropped file and in batches for programs. The header's two letters give the query type, and a file may hold several records. See Start a search. -
Smith-Waterman and global alignment for DNA
ReleasedNovember 2026Released in Sequences 0.70.0
Smith-Waterman and global alignment search a DNA query against the DNA sets as well as protein against protein, on both strands, with the progress line and the time left. BLAST stays the automatic choice for DNA. See Search methods.
2027 Q1
January to March 2027
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Result files from other sequence search systems
PlannedExpected March 2027
Import the result files that other sequence search systems write into a case, starting with ABSS's format once sample files arrive. Each hit joins its patent publication and SEQ ID NO, and a row that does not join is listed with its reason.
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Several servers sharing one queue
PlannedExpected March 2027
Run one install of the server edition on several servers that take searches from one shared queue, so more searches run at once. The queue keeps its searches through a restart.
Later
Not scheduled yet
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Therapeutic antibody names on antibody hits
Not scheduledAntibody hits name the therapeutic antibodies that share their sequence. This needs a data source whose terms allow it.
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Dates for papers that have only a DOI
Not scheduledA paper with a DOI but no PubMed record gets its day as well, not only its year.
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Online payment after a free trial
Not scheduledChoose and pay for a plan online when a trial ends. Today you write to support@conductscience.com to choose a plan.
