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For a more complete and correct interpretation of these experiments, it is important to extend substantially the number of annotations, adapting the ontological analysis to the new emerging techniques.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We developed Annotation-Modules, which offers an improvement over the current tools in two critical aspects. First, the underlying annotation database implements features from many different fields like gene regulation and expression, sequence properties, evolution and conservation, genomic localization and functional categories\u2014resulting in about 60 different annotation features. 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