FASTA to Gene Names (Is BLAST the best option)

Question

[gtasource]

Dealing with an unannotated genome. I have the sequences of genes I'm interested in knowing the names of (in fasta format.) The idea was to simply BLAST them against a species that we believe is closely related. However, is there any other options or software that might be best suited?

[GenoMax]

Is this a pro- or eukaryotic genome. With prokaryotic genomes prokka (https://github.com/tseemann/prokka ) is what people recommend for annotation of new genomes.

You could simply blast (do it at protein level to get better matches) against a closely related genome if one is available.

[h.mon]

Blasting will not give the names of the genes, it will give you the names of the most similar genes in a database. Have in mind that the names of those genes in the database may have been themselves derived from blast searches.