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RNA-Seq is the method of choice for getting a primary list of genes for non-model organisms. Once this is achieved, one would proceed to annotate the newly discovered genes and consequently strive to position the organism in an evolutionary context. ...

The function of a newly sequenced gene can be discovered by determining its sequence homology with known proteins. BLAST is the most extensively used sequence analysis program for sequence similarity search in large databases of sequences. With the advent of ...