Annotrieve community annotations registry

This repository is the community registry for genome annotation entries that power Annotrieve.

What this repo is for

Contributors add project folders. Each folder contains:

• A manifest.yaml file — who produced the annotation and how (provider, pipeline, version).
• An annotations.tsv file — one row per assembly: NCBI accession (GCA_… / GCF_…) and a stable HTTPS link to a GFF3 file (plain or gzipped).

Together, these files describe “this assembly, this annotation file,” in a form that can be checked automatically.

Annotation URLs: Pull-request validation downloads each linked file (up to 500 MiB per URL). Files above that size fail. Gzip-compressed GFF3 (.gff.gz) is strongly recommended — smaller downloads, faster checks, and less chance of exceeding the limit.

Files you add or edit when you contribute

<project_name>/
  manifest.yaml      # Required metadata (see schema)
  annotations.tsv    # Header + one row per assembly (tab-separated)

• Exact TSV header: schema/annotations.tsv.header
• Manifest rules: schema/manifest.schema.json
• Copy-paste starter: examples/sample_project/

See CONTRIBUTING.md for a step-by-step flow (fork → edit → pull request).

How it fits in the larger system

After your changes are merged here, the Genome Annotation Tracker reads this registry, turns each project’s manifest + TSV into formatted rows, and adds them to the shared community annotation table. Those rows are published on Annotrieve in periodic imports.

You (this repo)             Downstream                          App
─────────────────           ──────────────────────────────      ───────────
manifest.yaml        ──►    genome-annotation-tracker    ──►    Annotrieve
annotations.tsv              (community TSV)