I've been having an issue where the anvi-script-process-genbank-metadata program occasionally cannot recognize protein translations from standard Genbank files. Here's an example:
ncbi-genome-download --section refseq --assembly-accessions GCF_000378065.1,GCF_000212375.1 --metadata metadata.txt bacteria
anvi-script-process-genbank-metadata -m metadata.txt --output-dir processed --exclude-gene-calls-from-fasta
Both genbank files downloaded have /translation data, but only one of the external-gene-calls files has an aa_sequence column. I'm using a conda install of Anvi'o 7.1 on Mac OS Monterey.
Thanks so much for your help and time!
Best,
Emily St. John