Genomics Inform. 2014 Jun;12(2):76-8. doi: 10.5808/GI.2014.12.2.76. Epub 2014 Jun 30.
Genomics & informatics
Dong Su Yu, Byung Kwon Kim
PMID: 25031571 PMCID: PMC4099352 DOI: 10.5808/GI.2014.12.2.76
Owing to the generation of vast amounts of sequencing data by using cost-effective, high-throughput sequencing technologies with improved computational approaches, many putative proteins have been discovered after assembly and structural annotation. Putative proteins are typically annotated using a functional annotation system that uses extant databases, but the expansive size of these databases often causes a bottleneck for rapid functional annotation. We developed SFannotation, a simple and fast functional annotation system that rapidly annotates putative proteins against four extant databases, Swiss-Prot, TIGRFAMs, Pfam, and the non-redundant sequence database, by using a best-hit approach with BLASTP and HMMSEARCH.
Keywords: bioinformatics; gene product; protein annotation