Team II Functional Annotation Group

Team 2: Functional Annotation

Team Members: Danielle Temples, Courtney Astore, Rhiya Sharma, Ujani Hazra, Sooyoun Oh

Introduction

• What is functional Annotation?

Functional annotation is the practice of putting biological meaning to a coding genes (genes that encode proteins) and their corresponding protein sequences. Such annotations can be derived using homology and ab initio-based approaches.

• Homology-based approaches vs. ab initio-based approaches