Tool

Description/Features

Web Address/URL

Ref.

 

Assembly Tools

   
CAP3

Alignment/assembly/Roche

http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/cap3.php  
Abyss

Alignment/assembly/Illumina

www.bcgsc.ca/platform/bioinfo/software/abyss  
Phrap

Alignment/assembly/Illumina/Roche

http://www.phrap.org/consed/consed.html  
Velvet

Alignment/assembly/Roche/ABI/Illumina

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/%7Ezerbino/velvet  
 

Gene Prediction Tools

   
Glimmer Microbial gene-finding system www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/glimmer/ [103]
GeneMark Gene Prediction in Bacteria, Archaea and Metagenomes http://opal.biology.gatech.edu/GeneMark/ [18]
EasyGene Gene Predictor in prokaryotic DNA www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/EasyGene/ [43]
FgenesB Bacterial Operon and Gene Prediction http://linux1.softberry.com/ [104]
REGANOR Gene prediction Sever and Database www.cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de/    [69]
Prodigal   Prokaryotic Dynamic Programming Gene finding Algorithm http://prodigal.ornl.gov/ [105]
  Automatic and Manual Annotation Pipelines/Tools    
GenColors Comparative Genomics and Annotation Tool http://gencolors.imb-jena.de/ [5]
MicroScope Comparative Genomics  and Annotation Platform http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/ [6]
KAAS KEGG Automatic Annotation Server www.genome.jp/tools/kaas/ [23]
AutoFACT Automated Annotation Tool http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/ [25]
BASys Bacterial Annotation System http://basys.ca/basys/cgi/submit.pl [42]
IGS IGS Prokaryotic Annotation Pipeline http://ae.igs.umaryland.edu/cgi/ [26]
CMR Comprehensive Microbial Resource and annotation http://cmr.jcvi.org/ [27]
PGAAP NCBI Prokaryotic Automatic Annotation Pipeline www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/ [28]
GenDB Prokaryotic Genomes Annotation System www.cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de/ [15]
MANATEE Manual Functional Annotation Tool http://manatee.sourceforge.net/ [41]
HAMAP Automated and Manual Annotation of Microbial Proteomes http://us.expasy.org/sprot/hamap/ [2]
RAST Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology www.nmpdr.org/FIG/wiki/view.cgi/ [9]
xBASE Bacterial Genome Annotation Service http://www.xbase.ac.uk/annotation/ [42]
Blast2GO Annotation and Sequence Analysis tool http://www.blast2go.com/  
 

Databases and Resources

   
NCBI Genbank, RefSeq, TPA and PDB,  databanks for storage and downloadable genomic information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/  
EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl  
GOLD Data resource for genomic and matagenomic projects http://www.genomesonline.org/  
KEGG An integrated database resource, provides genomic, chemical and systemic information http://www.kegg.jp/  
IMG Resource for Comparative Analysis and Annotation http://img.jgi.doe.gov/  
JCVI Comprehensive Microbial Resource (CMR) http://www.jcvi.org/  
MBGD Database, analysis of orthologous, paralogous, motifs, gene order and annotation. http://mbgd.genome.ad.jp/  
RDP Ribosomal Database, bacterial RNA sequences, alignments and tools for RNA analysis http://rdp.cme.msu.edu/  
Rfam RNA database http://rfam.sanger.ac.uk/  
GtRNAdb RNA Database, tRNA gene Predictions http://lowelab.ucsc.edu/GtRNAdb/  
UniProt Protein Resource and Functional information http://www.uniprot.org  
UniProtKB Curated Protein Database (UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot and UniProtKB/TrEMBL) http://www.uniprot.org/help/uniprotkb  
Gene Ontology (GO) GO Database, annotation of genes, protein and sequences. http://www.geneontology.org/  
METACYC Database for metabolic pathways http://metacyc.org/  
Table 2: Gene prediction tools, an automatic and manual annotation pipelines, databases and resources. Tools for comparative genomics/proteomics analysis.