Is gene XXX annotated in the sequence?
Maybe. We have run automated tools for finding putative genes, relying on ab initio gene finders and sequence similarity to known proteins. You can search for a gene by name, or by a blastx hit to a known gene. However the gene names are extremely preliminary, and you will find most genes are either named ‘predicted protein’ (meaning no or weak homology to known genes), ‘hypothetical protein’ (indicating weak homology to known genes), or ‘hypothetical protein (name)’ (indicating strong homology). We are not yet in a position to curate manual annotations.
