We are happy to announce that you can now submit your genome sequences annotated by your own local copy of the standalone Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (PGAP) to GenBank.
How does it work? Download PGAP from GitHub, provide some basic information and the FASTA sequences for your genome sequence, and run the pipeline on your own machine, compute farm or the cloud. PGAP will produce annotation consistent with NCBI’s internal PGAP. Submit the resulting annotated genome to GenBank through the genome submission portal, and get an accession back.
As with any other submitted assembly, PGAP-annotated genomes will be screened for foreign contaminants and vector sequences at submission. Any annotated assemblies that don’t pass may need to be modified. We are developing an automated process to handle these edits!
We are also working on other improvements to stand-alone PGAP such as a module for calculating Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) to confirm the assembly’s taxonomic assignment. Stay tuned for new developments!
