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Annotation

Annotation (genome annotation) is a process to identify functional elements, often proteins encoded by genes, in the genome.



Definitions in the literature

  • Genome annotation is the process of identifying functional elements along the sequence of a genome, thus giving meaning to it [1].
  • The principal aim of protein-level annotation is to assign function to the products of the genome [2].