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 coding genes (genes that encode proteins) and their corresponding protein sequences. Such annotations can be derived using homology and ab initio-based approaches, which will be further explained in subsequent sections.