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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a functional assignment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a task or duty that serves a specific purpose or function within a larger framework.
Example: "The team was given a functional assignment to improve the efficiency of the production process."
Alternatives: "a practical task" or "a designated role".
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However, a large fraction of these newly discovered genes do not have a functional assignment.
However, using these probabilistic networks to produce a functional assignment remains a hard computational problem.
As revealed by the fact that the structural similarities of DS homologs were prone to be underestimated by conventional PSC methods (Fig. 2 and Figure S3), the proposed method may also serve as a functional assignment system for novel hypothetical proteins which escape typical sequence and structural similarity searches/detections.
Today, it is agreed that a functional assignment of the genome is needed [ 127].
K-means clustering was performed using Pearson correlation to split the selected features into five clusters from where features were chosen to conduct a functional assignment.
The 5.4 Mb genome contains approximately 5000 protein-coding genes, out of which ~70% have been given a functional assignment [ 18].
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For newly displayed microbial genomes, about a third of the genes do not thus acquire any functional assignment.
Most of them (245) did not retrieve any functional assignment when probing the COG database.
In order to make a meaningful functional assignment to a protein family it is important to characterise the ancestral and derived motifs.
While we could see that protein domains from the same Pfam clan do indeed have similar DV I values, we were not able to show that domains that have either a low or a high DV I have a particular functional assignment, i.e. common GO annotations.
However, the lack of a relatively high sequence identity dismisses an accurate functional assignment and leads to a large number of cumulative homology-based misannotations, which can spread through functional databases (10).
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