RASTtk: A modular and extensible implementation of the RAST algorithm for building custom annotation pipelines and annotating batches of genomes

Brettin, Thomas; J. Davis, James; Disz, Terry; A. Edwards, Robert; Gerdes, Svetlana; J. Olsen, Gary; Olson, Robert; Overbeek, Ross; Parrello, Bruce; D. Pusch, Gordon; Shukla, Maulik; Thomason, James; Stevens, Rick; Vonstein, Veronika; R. Wattam, Alice; Xia, Fangfang

doi:10.1038/srep08365

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RASTtk: A modular and extensible implementation of the RAST algorithm for building custom annotation pipelines and annotating batches of genomes

Published in Scientific Reports • Feb 10, 2015

Authors:

Thomas Brettin

James J. Davis

Terry Disz

Abstract

The RAST (Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology) annotation engine was built in 2008 to annotate bacterial and archaeal genomes. It works by offering a standard software pipeline for identifying genomic features (i.e., protein-encoding genes and RNA) and annotating their functions. Recently, i...

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Annotation

Computer science

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