The "street light syndrome", or how protein taxonomy can bias experimental manipulations.

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In the genomics era, bioinformatic analysis, especially in non-model species, facilitates the identification and naming of numerous new proteins, the function of which is then inferred through homology searches. Here, we question certain aspects of these approaches. What are the criteria that permit such a determination? What are their limits? Naming is classifying. We review the different criteria that are used...

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