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bakta

Description

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Bakta is a tool for the rapid & standardized annotation of bacterial genomes and plasmids from both isolates and MAGs. It provides dbxref-rich and sORF-including annotations in machine-readable JSON & bioinformatics standard file formats for automatic downstream analysis.

Environment Modules

Run module spider bakta to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

  • HPC_BAKTA_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_BAKTA_BIN - executable directory
  • BAKTA_DB - reference database directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses Bakta you have to cite it as follows:

Schwengers, O., Jelonek, L., Dieckmann, M. A., Beyvers, S., Blom, J., & Goesmann, A. (2021). Bakta: Rapid and standardized annotation of bacterial genomes via alignment-free sequence identification. Microbial Genomics, 7(11), 000685. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000685

Categories

genomics, biology