Tag: Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT)

NCBI’s Read Assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT) to Retire December 2024

As of December 2024, NCBI’s pilot tool, Read Assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT) will no longer be available.

We encourage you to check out NCBI’s suite of assembly and annotation tools including the genome assembler SKESA, the taxonomic assignment tool ANI, and the prokaryotic genome annotation pipeline (PGAP).

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New in RAPT: Better taxonomic assignment and GO annotation

We are excited to announce two improvements to the Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT), which allows you to assemble genomic reads for bacterial or archaeal isolates and annotate their genes at the click of a button.

Improved taxonomic assignment

Now RAPT verifies the scientific name you provide with the reads, and corrects it as needed with the Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) tool, which compares your genome to type strain assemblies in GenBank to place it in the taxonomic tree. So, even if you only have a rough idea of the species you have sequenced, input datasets tailored to your genome will be used for the annotation and you will get the best possible gene set from RAPT. Continue reading “New in RAPT: Better taxonomic assignment and GO annotation” →

NCBI on YouTube: ClinVar API, check data with GaPTools, get genetic context with Sequence Viewer

Every so often, we gather our most recent videos in one post on the blog, for your convenience. Scroll down – and don’t forget to subscribe to our channel!

Introducing GaPTools for dbGaP Submitters

This video introduces new standalone software called GaPTools, which you can use to check your data before submitting to dbGaP. GaPTools uses the same preliminary validation checks as the dbGaP submission portal.

Continue reading “NCBI on YouTube: ClinVar API, check data with GaPTools, get genetic context with Sequence Viewer” →

Announcing RefSeq Release 206!

RefSeq Release 206 is now available. This release includes the following:

Updated human genome Annotation Release 109.20210514
Updated Annotation Release 109.20210514 is an update of NCBI Homo sapiens Annotation Release 109. The annotation report is available here. The annotation products are available in the sequence databases and on the FTP site.

Other new eukaryotic genome annotations
This release includes new annotations generated by NCBI’s eukaryotic genome annotation pipeline for 45 additional species, including: Continue reading “Announcing RefSeq Release 206!” →

Assemble and annotate your prokaryotic genomes with RAPT

Do you need an easy way to analyze a bacterium you just isolated? The latest version of NCBI’s Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT) is a pilot web service for the assembly and gene annotation of public or private Illumina genomic reads sequenced from bacterial or archaeal isolates.

We’ll be giving a webinar on webRAPT on May 19 where you can learn more, but you can test it out now.

Get started with the click of a button

RAPT is simple to use.

1. If you’re working with NIH’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and have an SRA accession, enter it in the first box below (Figure 1a) or upload a file of sequencing reads in the second box (Figure 1b).

screenshot of webRAPT submission; enter SRA accession number on the left or upload files on the right — **Figure 1.** 1a, on the left. Enter an SRA run accession (starting with SRR, DRR or ERR) in the text box on the left if you wish to assemble reads that are already public and press submit. If you are providing a read set that is not in SRA, use the box on the right, shown in 1b. Enter the organism name (genus only or genus species known to NCBI Taxonomy) in the “Organism” field. Click “One file” if all reads for the run are in a single file. This file can contain single-end reads or paired-end reads with reads of a pair adjacent to each other in the file (interleaved). Upload the sequencing reads using the “Choose file” button. Click “Two files” to provide forward and reverse reads from a paired-end library in two separate files. Upload the forward and reverse files using the “Choose Forward Reads File” and “Choose Reverse Reads File” buttons. Then press submit.

Continue reading “Assemble and annotate your prokaryotic genomes with RAPT” →

May 19 Webinar: Using the new web RAPT service to assemble and annotate prokaryotic genomes

Join us on May 19, 2021 at 12PM eastern time to learn how to use the new RAPT pilot service to assemble and annotate public or private Illumina genomic reads sequenced from bacterial or archaeal isolates at the click of a button. RAPT consists of two major components, the genome assembler SKESA and the Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (PGAP), and produces an annotated genome of quality comparable to RefSeq in a couple of hours.

Date and time: Wed, May 19, 2021 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM EDT
Register

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about attending the webinar. A few days after the live presentation, you can view the recording on the NCBI webinars playlist on the NLM YouTube channel. You can learn about future webinars on the Webinars and Courses page.

NCBI at CSHL Biology of Genomes, May 11 – 14, 2021

NCBI staff will be presenting virtual posters at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Biology of Genomes Meeting, May 11 -14, 2021. The posters will cover the following topics: 1) a cloud-ready suite of tools (PGAP, RAPT , and SKESA) for assembling and annotating prokaryotic genomes, 2) Datasets — a new set of services for downloading genome assemblies and annotations, and 3) updates on NCBI RefSeq eukaryotic genome annotation, and the Genome Data Viewer (GDV). Read more below for the full abstracts.

The virtual poster gallery opens Tuesday, May 11 at 9:00 a.m. with dedicated time for poster viewing and discussion at 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. through Slack each day. The poster gallery will be open for entire the conference and remain available for six weeks afterwards. Continue reading “NCBI at CSHL Biology of Genomes, May 11 – 14, 2021” →

New release of the Read Assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT), now 2X faster!

There is a new release of the Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT) available from our GitHub site. RAPT is a one-step application for the genome assembly and gene annotation of archaeal and bacterial isolates that can run on your local computer or the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With this new release, jobs will run twice as fast as with the December release. For example, we have assembled and annotated a Salmonella enterica genome in under an hour on a 16-CPU machine with the new release.
We have also added several new features based on your feedback including:

The –stop-on-errors flag that will stop the process if there evidence from the average nucleotide identity check that there is sample mix-up or contamination by other bacteria.
The ability to accept forward and reverse reads of paired-end runs in separate files. These can be compressed (gzip) files.

Finally, thanks to all who came to our webinar in December and provided their comments! For these who couldn’t join us, you can now view the recording on our YouTube channel.

NCBI on YouTube: RAPT and BLAST+ on the Cloud, SARS-CoV-2 genome data in Datasets

It’s time we do another roundup of what’s been happening on YouTube!

First up, the NCBI YouTube channel has merged with the NLM YouTube channel. You’ll now be able to find diverse content all on one channel, from tips on using resources to fascinating moments in the history of medicine and more!

Continue reading “NCBI on YouTube: RAPT and BLAST+ on the Cloud, SARS-CoV-2 genome data in Datasets” →

Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT) is available for use and testing

We are excited to launch a beta version of RAPT, the Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool, a one-step application for the genome assembly and gene annotation of archaeal and bacterial isolates. Start from an Illumina run in SRA or on your local machine and get a fully annotated genome!

A RAPT Docker container includes SKESA, a high-accuracy assembler for short reads, PGAP, the annotation pipeline written in the common workflow language (CWL) and used by RefSeq, and cwltool, the reference implementation for CWL. A RAPT release also includes a set of reference data that are critical for a quality annotation. RAPT can be executed with Docker, Singularity or podman on any local or remote machine meeting basic requirements. For users of the Google Cloud Platform, RAPT can be launched from the Google Shell without configuring a virtual machine in advance.

To learn more about RAPT, register for our upcoming webinar.

Questions? Interest in becoming a beta tester? Contact us!

RAPT is available here.