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Prokka Annotation for Bacterial Transcriptomes

Can Prokka be used to annotate bacterial transcriptomes? Say I have a fasta file generated from a de novo assembly (Trinity). Will using Prokka the same way you annotate genomes work correctly? I don't see any mention of transcriptomes in the Prokka documentation, but it seems like it should work the same.

If not, what tool does everyone use to annotate bacterial transcriptomes?

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Find the ORFs in your transcripts (e.g. with transdecoder) and then blastx (or translate and blastp) against a bacterial protein database. Transcripts without ORFs and those without hits you could process with RNA finding tools (tRNAscan, Infernal, SortmeRNA etc.) and blastn against ncRNA databases. No need to do gene finding.

In theory, I can’t see any reason this wouldn’t work. The annotations may not be fantastic however if it’s quite a broken up set of sequences etc.

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