<s>
Blast2GO	B-Application
,	O
first	O
published	O
in	O
2005	O
,	O
is	O
a	O
bioinformatics	O
software	O
tool	O
for	O
the	O
automatic	O
,	O
high-throughput	O
functional	O
annotation	O
of	O
novel	O
sequence	O
data	O
(	O
genes	O
proteins	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
makes	O
use	O
of	O
the	O
BLAST	B-Application
algorithm	O
to	O
identify	O
similar	O
sequences	O
to	O
then	O
transfers	O
existing	O
functional	O
annotation	O
from	O
yet	O
characterised	O
sequences	O
to	O
the	O
novel	O
one	O
.	O
</s>
