Figure 4. Functional Annotation Pipelines.

This schema is showing a typical functional annotation pipeline, in which functional roles are assigned to coding sequences (CDSs) inferred in the gene prediction process. The process implements three parallel routes for the definition of functions. The first refers to proteins domains and motifs, the second for orthology search and finally the third is applied to homology search. At the end, the output from the three different sources is put together for more valuable predictions.