Unfortunately …
•Compared to sequence
information, biological function is much more
difficult to analyze.
•Biological data is
fragmented
–Biologists currently waste a lot of time
and effort in searching for all of the available information about each small area of research.
•Language used in biological
research is not well controlled
–This is hampered further by the wide
variations in terminology that may be common usage at any given time, which inhibit effective
searching by both computers and people.
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Adopted from
http://www.geneontology.org/