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Can I directly blast mRNAs against nr database or I need to convert it to cds first

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tianshenbio ▴ 180

Now I have a fasta file of mRNAs (all exons with UTRs) that I hope to annotate. Is it necessary to find the start and stop codon and blast only the CDS region to the NCBI nr database using blastx command-line tool?

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Searches against nr can be very time consuming and if you have a lot of sequences, you may want to do the search locally or switch to diamond v.2 instead.

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Hi, yes I am actually using the blastx function within diamond.

ADD REPLY • link 4.3 years ago by tianshenbio ▴ 180

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JC 13k

It is not necessary, BlastX will translate your mRNA to the respective protein. Just be careful for incorrect hits (for example if there are more than one ORF in your sequence)