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Table 2 Functional annotation tools that can be used in microbial genome annotation

From: Recent advances in genome annotation and synthetic biology for the development of microbial chassis

Tool

Description

Source

(Meta)GeneMark

A webpage that provides access to gene prediction in metagenomes

[24]

(Meta)Prodigal

Gene prediction software that is used to identify protein-coding genes in prokaryotic genomes

[29]

MetaGeneAnnotator

Predicts all kinds of prokaryotic genes from a single or a set of anonymous genomic sequences having a variety of lengths

[47]

CDD

Comprises protein domains conserved throughout molecular evolution

[41]

ChEBI

The CHEBI database contains manually curated data on chemical entities

[26]

GO FEAT

A web-based functional annotation tool for genomic and transcriptomic data

[5]

GO

The Gene Ontology database provides a standardized vocabulary for describing gene function

[2, 9]

KEGG

Links genomic data and higher-order functional information

[32]

Rhea

Rhea is a database that contains functional annotations for enzymes and descriptions of metabolic pathways. The annotations in Rhea are based on expert-curated, non-redundant information on biochemical reactions

[43]

InterPro

InterPro provides functional analysis of proteins by classifying them into families and predicting domains and important sites

[53]

NCBI Blast

BLAST is a program that identifies regions of similarity between sequences

[30]

SEED

The SEED database provides genome annotations across thousands of genomes

[52]

UniProt

A freely accessible resource on protein sequences and functional annotation

[11]

RefSeq

RefSeq provides a well-annotated set of sequences, including genomic DNA, transcripts, and proteins

[48]

FunMappOne

FunMappOne is a tool for functional analysis and visualization of gene lists

[60]

g:Profiler

Web server for functional enrichment analysis and additional information mining

[37]

GAEV

A tool that was developed for the construction of complete sets of molecular pathways for non-model organisms using KEGG gene function annotations

[73]

GOPlot

GOPlot is an R package for the functional analysis of gene lists

[69]