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It is important to keep track of dates of annotations.
Information can be very fragile. It is important to keep track of dates and of authors associated with annotation sources. Ideally, results must always be replicable even after a period of time. Since the names of genes can change, and information on the gene function can be updated, these changes can affect past interpretations of data. It is therefore always important to use the appropriate version of annotations.

The entire proteome is a network.
All of the proteins in an organism can be symbolized as nodes, and the interactions which connect them can be edges. Such a diagram would have a very large amount of information, but it would not be able to be interpreted effectively. Therefore, it is important to simplify networks.