Could you provide .gbk files in next release?

GTDB
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Hello GTDB team,

Thank you so much for providing such a good database for taxonomy determination. I myself is doing evolutionary studies of transcription regulators, I find GTDB is very useful.

Since I need to extract promoter sequence from protein of interest, a GenBank format genome can be of great help. I cannot find it in /public/gtdb/data/releases/latest/genomic_files_reps.

I tried to re-annotate these genomes from GTDB’s .fna files, however I find my compute source is limited. Maybe many of others are facing the same problem. Though I can also download them from NCBI, I think NCBI version of annotation may not be exactly same as GTDB‘s. Could you provide GenBank format of genomes in next release?

Yours,

Song Shuang

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Hi Song,

Thank you for your message. We do not annotate the genomes in GTDB other than to identify the genes used to infer the reference trees.

Cheers,
Donovan

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OK, thank you!