I have done the core transcriptome assembly and now I'm working on prediction of gene model for specific genome. But I did not find how to create gene model in PASA.
Dear Maulik, you can use your assembled and unassembled reads to generate hints for Augustus. Then can ab initio train Augustus for gene prediction. Just remember to use the generated hints during final gene model prediction. You will also get the information about the percentage of hints support for you gene models.
A template configuration file for alignAssembly.config is provided at: $PASAHOME/pasa_conf/pasa.alignAssembly.Template.txt
Simply copy pasa.alignAssembly.Template.txt to your working directory and set the values for your MySQL database settings. You only need concern yourself with the following values:
Did you mean how to use Augustus to predict the gene models? What you want is just the parameters used or the detail full command?
1) For the parameters, you can run like this:
./augustus --help
The most important parameter as I know is "--species", which will affect your final result greatly. Also you can use the command "augustus --species=help" to choose the best species model for your targer genome.
If there are not any species models closely to your sequenced species, you can train your own models using the RNA-seq data or protein data from the closely species. You can refer to this website (http://www.molecularevolution.org/molevolfiles/exercises/augustus/training.html) to see the detail steps for "species" parameter training.
2) As for the detail command line, I often run like this:
augustus --gff3=on --species=xxx --outfile=your_genome.gff3 your_genome.fasta.masked
That's all I know about Augustus. Hope it will help you.