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Oliver Schwengers
@oschwengers.bsky.social
🦠🧬🖥️ Microbial bioinformatics PostDoc
@JLUGiessen, WGS bacteria, plasmids, software/pipeline developer, father of 2, husband, astrophotographer
We would also like to deeply thank @denbi.bsky.social
for the lasting support and funding enabling constant maintenance and development!
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Isolates or MAGs, we're looking for the worst-annotated genomes, i.e. high fraction of CDS w/o any functional annotation. Any public/shareable bacterial genome is highly welcome!

Please help us to further improve the annotation of bacterial genomes.

Please RT & share

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October 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Definitely the best to put next. We'll soon start some internal discussion of how/when to integrate that. It's been a pleasure to meet you in person Zam!
September 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Thanks so much Migle! It's been a pleasure to meet you at IMMEM and I'm glad you find BakRep useful!
September 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
100% agreed - exactly that was also our line of thinking.
April 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Thanks @kblin.bsky.social for pointing out. Of course, it is not a proper encryption, however hard to guess.

So, please use a proper encryption for sharing - if required.
April 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Even without registration, results can easily and safely be shared with others using encrypted URLs.

Of course, your data is handled with care automatically discarded after 30 days.

Just give it a try: bakta.computational.bio
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Bakta
bakta.computational.bio
April 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Results are presented via a cross-referenced data table, a linear genome browser and circular genome plots - just choose your viz!

Of course, all results are also available for download in various standard file formats: GFF3, GenBank, EMBL, FASTA, TSV, TXT, JSON…
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April 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
All executions are conducted in a scalable Kubernetes backend hosted within the @denbiOffice cloud.

By this, Bakta Web dynamically scales out to meet temporal peak demands.
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April 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Bakta Web is our web application accompanying Bakta’s CLI version.

It provides interactive widgets supporting users with both, the provision of input data and sample/sequence metadata, and the interpretation of annotation results.
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April 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Of course, the DB light version was also updated, however DB sizes have barely changed.

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March 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This introduced a DB major scheme update from v5 to v6, which in turned resulted in a new software release v1.11.0:

github.com/oschwengers/...

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Release v1.11 - Database ups and downs · oschwengers/bakta
This is the eleventh minor release (v1.11) introducing database schema version 6. Compatible database scheme version: 6 Important From this release on, Bakta will use xz instead of gz for all data...
github.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Due to this massive increase in known protein sequences, DB size has grown from 72GB to 83GB (deflated).

To mitigate negative download effects for our users, we therefore switched tarball compressions from gzip to xz.

Thus, compressed DB size actually decreased from 37GB to 30GB!

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March 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
To further improve annotation quality, external annotation sources have also been updated:

- COG: 2020 -> 2024
- Pfam: 36 -> 37.2
- RefSeq: r220 -> r228
- Rfam: 14.10 -> 15
- UniProtKB: 2023_05 -> 2025_01

Also, NCBI AMRFinderPlus and VFDB have been updated to the most recent versions.

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March 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This is a massive increase in known protein sequences - which is great!

Numbers of IPS and PSC have grown by 22% and 13%.

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March 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM