Inferred from Biological aspect of Descendant (IBD)

Overview

IBD is a type of phylogenetic evidence whereby an aspect of an ancestral gene is inferred through the characterization of an aspect of a descendant gene.
The principles underlying phylogenetic-based annotation are described further in the Phylogenetic annotation overview, but briefly, this annotation pipeline relies on phylogenetic analyses to transfer annotations amongst related sequences based on common ancestry.
Further information may be found in Phylogenetic-based propagation of functional annotations within the Gene Ontology consortium by Gaudet et al., 2011.

Last reviewed: February 28, 2018]