Dear researchers,

Automatic annotation is not more a big deal; several tools are handling that. However, when I needed of such service it uses to be, we could not trust too much that the service will be delivered nor if the quality will be satisfactory, specifically talking about pan-genomes. When are not expected too many differences between several genomes, do not make sense to transfer annotation from several different organisms, particularly if there are at least one genome close related and well annotated. Due that, I created a workbench called CpDB to handle such problems (SourceForge dot net/projects/cpdb/). Now I have the pleasure to provide to you all a training course extensively utilized by our research team teaching how to use the CpDB workbench step-by-step (link below). It is about one hundred steps to be performed in a Linux operational system using Postgres and native Linux commands. It can be ministered in a five hours course, for nonspecialists in Linux.

I hope it can be useful for someone else.

My best regards,

Anderson Santos

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpdbtutorial/

Just to conclude this subject, we had all to create a web page to handle this, so we did. The paper can be found in my publication list named "PANNOTATOR: an automated tool for annotation of pan-genomes." Just a small detail about the input files: the tool is no longer expecting specific suffix files (fasta, embl, gbk). I hope it can be useful.

Best regards,

Anderson Santos

bnet.egr.vcu.edu/pannotator/index.html