Questions and Answers
What is the main challenge in postgenomic era?
Functionally characterizing newly discovered proteins
Why do early approaches to protein function prediction fail?
They rely too heavily on homology relationships
What percentage of proteins in the NCBI database have no assigned function?
40%
What is the purpose of protein function prediction?
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Why are machine learning approaches currently applied to protein function prediction problems?
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What is a limitation of early approaches to protein function prediction?
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What is the result of the exponential increase in the number of newly identified proteins?
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What is needed to address the gap in functional characterization of newly discovered proteins?
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What is the goal of protein function prediction?
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Why are computational methods necessary for protein function prediction?
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