anvi-script-process-genbank-metadata

This script takes the 'metadata' output of the program ncbi-genome-download (see https://github.com/kblin/ncbi-genome-download for details), and processes each GenBank file found in the metadata file to generate a FASTA file, as well as genes and functions files for each entry. Plus, it autmatically generates a FASTA TXT file descriptor for anvi'o snakemake workflows. So it is a multi-talented program like that.

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Authors

A. Murat Eren (Meren)

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Daniel Blankenberg

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Can consume

This program seems to know what its doing. It needs no input material from its user. Good program.

Can provide

contigs-fasta functions-txt external-gene-calls

Usage

Suppose you have downloaded some genomes from NCBI (using this incredibly useful program) and you have a metadata table describing those genomes. This program will convert that metadata table into some useful files, namely: a FASTA file of contig sequences, an external gene calls file, and an external functions file for each genome you have downloaded; as well as a single tab-delimited fasta-txt file (like the one shown here) describing the path to each of these files for all downloaded genomes (that you can pass directly to a snakemake workflow if you need to). Yay.

The metadata file

The prerequisite for running this program is to have a tab-delimited metadata file containing information about each of the genomes you downloaded from NCBI. Let’s say your download command started like this: ncbi-genome-download --metadata-table ncbi_metadata.txt -t .... So for the purposes of this usage tutorial, your metadata file is called ncbi_metadata.txt.

In case you are wondering, that file should have a header that looks something like this:

assembly_accession	bioproject	biosample	wgs_master	excluded_from_refseq	refseq_category	relation_to_type_material	taxid	species_taxid	organism_name	infraspecific_name	isolate	version_status	assembly_level	release_type	genome_rep	seq_rel_dateasm_name	submitter	gbrs_paired_asm	paired_asm_comp	ftp_path	local_filename

Basic usage

If you run this, all the output files will show up in your current working directory.

Choosing an output directory

Alternatively, you can specify a directory in which to generate the output:

Picking a name for the fasta-txt file

The default name for the fasta-txt file is fasta-input.txt, but you can change that with the --output-fasta-txt parameter.

Make a fasta-txt without the gene calls and functions columns

The default columns in the fasta-txt file are:

name	path	external_gene_calls	gene_functional_annotation

But sometimes, you don’t want your downstream snakemake workflow to use those external gene calls or functional annotations files. So to skip adding those columns into the fasta-txt file, you can use the -E flag:

Then the fasta-txt will only contain a name column and a path column.

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Additional Resources

• A tutorial on using this program to access NCBI genomes for 'omics analyses in Anvi'o

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