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RAST: the Rapid Annotation Server

RAST (Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology) is a fully-automated service for annotating bacterial? and archaeal? genomes. It provides high quality genome annotations for these genomes across the whole phylogenetic tree? .

Using FigFams and the SubsystemsApproach to annotation, the RAST server is able to produce high-quality annotated genomes in 12 to 24 hours. A full description of the RAST technology is described in our paper The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology.

Once your genome is annotated, you can browse through the results using the familiar GenomeViewer. The main NMPDR Genome Viewer uses the curated SproutDatabase; the RAST version uses a slightly larger database of public genomes with your uploaded genome added to the mix. So that your data remains private, you have to log in to the RAST server. If you don't have a login ID and password, you can get one here.

Genomes submitted to the RAST are generally treated as private data; however, you can request that your genome be added to the SproutDatabase. The genome will be curated by our annotation specialists and will eventually appear in the NMPDR (see GenomePipeline).

The server itself can be found here.

For metagenome? analysis, we have a modified version of RAST: the MG-RAST Server.