The remaining PF-04929113 ic50 5,464 predicted proteins, not having high similarity to GO-annotated proteins, were annotated with three general GO terms. GO:0005575 (Cellular Component), GO:0003674 (Molecular Function), and GO:MK-4827 in vitro 0008150 (Biological Process). Therefore, our GO annotation provides an annotation of the entire 12,832 proteins predicted in M. oryzae, and each protein being annotated with GO terms from
the three GO categories. Data availability The GO annotation of Version 5 of the genome sequence of Magnaporthe oryzae is available at the GO Consortium database http://www.geneontology.org/GO.current.annotations.shtml. Discussion Here, we present a detailed protocol for integrating the results of similarity-based annotation with a literature-based annotation of the predicted proteome of Version 5 of the genome sequence of the rice blast fungus M. oryzae. Through careful manual inspection of these annotations, we are able to provide a reliable and robust GO annotation for more than half of the predicted gene products. Of 6,286 proteins receiving computational annotations, only
1,343 did not exceed our stringent match criteria upon manual review and so were assigned the evidence code IEA. It should be noted that annotations with the IEA evidence code are retained in the GO database for only one year, and then the GO Consortium will remove them from a gene association file. To be retained, IEA annotations must be manually reviewed in order to be assigned an upgraded
evidence code such MK-1775 clinical trial as ISS (Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity). Currently, there is no recognized standard to assign the ISS code. We recommend the following criteria for assigning the ISS code: The functions of the proteins from which the annotation will be transferred must be experimentally characterized. The similarity between the characterized proteins and the proteins under study must be significant. For example, we used ≥ 80% coverage of both query and subject sequences, ≤ 10-20 E-value, and ≥ 40% Bacterial neuraminidase percentage of identity (pid) as cutoff criteria in our similarity-based GO annotation. Ideally, orthology should be established by phylogenetic analysis. The pairwise alignment between the characterized proteins and the proteins under study should be manually reviewed and cross-validated with characterized or reviewed data of other resources such as functional domains, active sites, and sequence patterns etc. Biological appropriateness of all assigned GO terms should be manually reviewed. Acknowledgements All authors read and approved the final manuscript. We thank Michelle Gwinn Giglio, Brett Tyler, and Candace Collmer for their comments and suggestions in annotating the genome of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea with GO terms, and Brett Tyler for editing of the manuscript.