annoreport: an interactive tool for metagenome annotation
Kepler Ridge, Byron J Adams, Scott Hazelhurst · 2026
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Description
Kepler Ridge, Byron Adams, and Scott Hazelhurst present annoreport, a tool that sums up gene annotation across a whole metagenome. Annotation tells what the genes of assembled genomes can do, a key read on a microbial community. Standard tools scatter their output across many files per bin, which makes review at scale hopeless by hand.
Their 2026 paper describes a single Python script with no extra dependencies. It takes output from the Prokka or Bakta annotators, spots which one was used, and builds a web report. Gene product counts, rates of unknown proteins, feature mixes, and gene clusters fill the page. A test on Antarctic soil genomes showed the tool at full scale.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kepler Ridge, Byron J Adams, Scott Hazelhurst |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 18 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |