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Bactaegion
discover / annotate a domain
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✦ Bactaegion collective mission○ local·0/ 478 206candidate families touched·0therapeutic hypotheses posted·0annotations completed
TUTORIAL MODE · RESOLVED DATA
Before you play — why this gesture

Your eye is about to learn to recognize the boundaries of a functional protein domain.

① What we ask you to do

A bacterial protein is laid flat as a horizontal band of amino acids. Drag the two cursors to enclose the main functional domain — the structural unit that does the work (catalysis, binding, etc.). At validation, we compare your framing against the reference UniProt/InterPro data.

② How you advance science

Of the 478,206 new candidate protein families identified by Pasteur (May 2026), only a fraction has its functional domains documented. The ability to frame a domain by eye is exactly what bioinformaticians do to label hundreds of thousands of orphan proteins in the GeneCLRDF dataset. You train here on 6 real proteins (BrxA, CdnE, ThsA, SspE, Cas9, bVip) already documented — so you can annotate the orphans (real contributive mode, milestone J3 of the public roadmap).

✦ NORTH STAR · Bactaegion

This gesture serves NS-1 (organize the exploration of the Pasteur atlas) and the skill-building that makes contributive annotation possible. See NORTH_STAR.md.