Letter G

Genome annotation

The process of identifying the locations of genes and all of the coding regions in a genome and determining what those genes do.

An annotation (irrespective of the context) is a note added by way of explanation or commentary.

Once a genome is sequenced, it needs to be annotated to make sense of it

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