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CAZymes ( C arbohydrate A ctive En Zymes ) degrade, synthesize, and modify all complex carbohydrates on Earth. CAZymes are extremely important to research in human health, nutrition, gut microbiome, bioenergy, plant disease, and global carbon recycling. Current CAZyme annotation tools are all based on sequence similarity.
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Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University Nasr City Cairo 11884 Egypt
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