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BMC Bioinformatics BioMed Central Research article Open Access Association algorithm to mine the rules that govern enzyme definition and to classify protein sequences 1,2 1 1 2 Shih-Hau Chiu , Chien-Chi Chen , Gwo-Fang Yuan and Thy-Hou Lin* Address: 1Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, HsinChu, Taiwan and 2Institute of Molecular Medicine/Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan Email: Shih-Hau Chiu - shc@.tw; Chien-Chi Chen - chj@.tw; Gwo-Fang Yuan - gfy@.tw; Thy- Hou Lin* - thlin@.tw * Corresponding author Published: 15 June 2006 Received: 06 December 2005 Accepted: 15 June 2006 BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:304 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-304 This article is available from: /1471-2105/7/304 © 2006 Chiu et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The number of sequences compiled in many genome projects is growing exponentially, but most of them have not been characterized experimentally. An automatic annotation scheme must be in an urgent need to reduce the gap between the amount of new