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RAPT-release edited this page Oct 3, 2024 · 6 revisions

As of December 2024, NCBI's pilot tool, Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline (RAPT) tool will no longer be available. We encourage you to check out NCBI’s suite of assembly and annotation tools including the genome assembler SKESA, the taxonomic assignment tool ANI, and the prokaryotic genome annotation pipeline (PGAP). Learn more...


NCBI RAPT CWL

The NCBI RAPT CWL and other code authored by NCBI is a "United States Government Work" under the terms of the United States Copyright Act. It was written as part of the authors' official duties as United States Government employees and thus cannot be copyrighted. This software is freely available to the public for use. The National Library of Medicine and the U.S. Government have not placed any restriction on its use or reproduction.

Although all reasonable efforts have been taken to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the software and data, the NLM and the U.S. Government do not and cannot warrant the performance or results that may be obtained by using this software or data. The NLM and the U.S. Government disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of performance, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose.

Please cite NCBI in any work or product based on this material.

Third-party tools

The Docker image contains third-party tools distributed under the licensing terms of the respective license holders.

GeneMarkS-2+

GeneMarkS-2+ is distributed as part of RAPT and PGAP with limited rights of use and redistribution from the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. See the full text of the license.

TIGRFAMs

The original TIGRFAMs database was a research project of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) . TIGRFAMs, short for The Institute for Genomic Research's database of protein families, is a collection of manually curated protein families focusing primarily on prokaryotic sequences. It consists of hidden Markov models (HMMs), multiple sequence alignments, Gene Ontology (GO) terminology, Enzyme Commission (EC) numbers, gene symbols, protein family names, descriptive text, cross-references to related models in TIGRFAMs and other databases, and pointers to the literature. The work has been described in the articles listed in the References section above and use of the TIGRFAMs database must grant proper attribution by citing those four articles.

As of April 2018, rights were transferred to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine, NIH, for the data to be made available for distribution under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Please see (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for a brief summary of the license and (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode) to see the full text.

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Permissions of this strong copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. See the full text of the license.

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