Prokka is a tool that facilitates the fast annotation of prokaryotic genomes.
The goals of this tutorial are to:
Download and extract the latest version of prokka:
cd ~/
wget http://www.vicbioinformatics.com/prokka-1.11.tar.gz
tar -xvzf prokka-1.11.tar.gz
We also will need some dependencies such as bioperl:
sudo apt-get -y install bioperl libdatetime-perl libxml-simple-perl libdigest-md5-perl
and we need an XML package from perl
sudo bash
export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1
export PERL_EXTUTILS_AUTOINSTALL="--defaultdeps"
perl -MCPAN -e 'install "XML::Simple"'
exit
Now, you should be able to add Prokka to your $PATH and set up the index for the sequence database:
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/prokka-1.11/bin
prokka --setupdb
Prokka should be good to go now– you can check to make sure that all is well by typing prokka. This should print the help screen with all available options. You can find out more about Prokka databases here.
Make a new directory for the annotation:
cd ~/
mkdir annotation
cd annotation
Link the metagenome assembly file into this directory:
ln -fs ~/mapping/subset_assembly.fa .
Now it is time to run Prokka! There are tons of different ways to specialize the running of Prokka. We are going to keep it simple for now, though. It will take a little bit to run.
prokka subset_assembly.fa --outdir prokka_annotation --prefix metagG --metagenome
This will generate a new folder called prokka_annotation in which will be a series of files, which are detailed here.
In particular, we will be using the *.ffn file to assess the relative read coverage within our metagenomes across the predicted genomic regions.