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It can also be used to screen for sequence motifs that are specific for certain biological functions. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GenoScreen&#8217;s assets<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Exhaustive searching within functional genomics reference databases (<a title=\"UniProt est la premi&#xE8;re ressource mondiale de haute qualit&#xE9;, compl&#xE8;te et librement accessible de s&#xE9;quences de prot&#xE9;ines et d'informations fonctionnelles.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniprot.org\/\">UniProt <\/a>\/ <a title=\"The Gene Ontology (GO) knowledgebase is the world&#x2019;s largest source of information on the functions of genes.\" href=\"https:\/\/geneontology.org\/\">GeneOntology<\/a>, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Significant <strong>high-performance computing capacity<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expertise in big <strong>data techniques<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In-depth knowledge of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genoscreen.fr\/en\/genoscreen-expertise\/the-analysis-of-microbial-communities\/\" type=\"page\" id=\"116\">microbial functional genomics<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-04478499 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-elementor-28-fc-130-color has-elementor-primary-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genoscreen.fr\/en\/genomic-services\/request-a-quote\/\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px\">Request a quote<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genomic annotations are aimed to associate the sequencing of a genome or transcriptome with exploitable biological information. 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