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Bakta now takes advantage of @althonos 's Pyrodigal instead of Prodigal - a stable & maintained version.
Of note, Pyrodigal fixes a known scoring bug concerning genes on the reverse strand. (2/4)
Sep 3, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🦠🧬🖥️ Just out: our new preprint describing bacterial genome annotation via a new alignment-free sequence identification (AFSI) approach biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/n)
Taxonomic untargeted annotation tools & DBs are required to annotate rare or unknown species. However, constantly growing sequence DBs lead to larger computational work loads due to higher numbers of required sequence alignments. (2/n)
May 17, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
🦠🧬🖥️ Excited to share release v1.0 of Bakta: a new tool for rapid & standardized annotations of bacterial genomes & #plasmidsgithub.com/oschwengers/ba… more details 👇 1/n
Bakta annotates bacterial genomes & plasmids in minutes comparable to Prokka (kudos @torstenseemann) adding distinct features: annotation of small proteins, alignment-free protein identification, a taxon-independent DB, ample Dbxrefs, JSON output, utilizing complete replicons 2/n
