Bakta: Rapid & standardized annotation of bacterial genomes via alignment-free sequence identification
Oliver Schwengers, Lukas Jelonek, Marius Alfred Dieckmann, Sebastian Beyvers, Jochen Blom, Alexander Goesmann
Bakta annotates bacterial genomes with one taxon-independent database, uses MD5-hash protein lookups to skip alignments and assign cross-references, detects small proteins, and lowers hypothetical-protein rates versus Prokka/DFAST.
Microbial Genomics · Nov 5, 2021Peer-reviewedBioinformatics✦ In-depth digest