Hi! I'm biotechnology undergrad (wet lab) currently doing my master in bioinformatics. Now my project is regarding fungi genome assembly and annotation. I had done genome assembly and now struggling with annotation because I have no prior experience dealing with genomic data. I'm interested to become a bioinformatician during my 2nd year of the degree and fed up doing wet lab so I took this project. My current supervisor also has no experience doing hands-on bioinformatic work. His second option is to send out to annotate if there is no master student took his project. My external co-supervisor barely help me in this project as he also has a lot of bioinformatic related project to deal with.

Anyways, to do genome annotation is it require to have genome assembly data, transcriptomic data and protein data? I only have my genome assembly data. The fungal genome I assembled is new and it was not found in the NCBI database. How can I get transcriptomic data and protein data? Which database and how am I going to BLAST it?

Sorry if the question sounds so simple yet I can't do it or even Google it! This project had stressed me out and I feel like giving up on pursuing this bioinformatic career. Are there any websites/resources that can help me on this path? Thanks for your help!