An iterative blast workflow was used to annotate the R. philippinarum contigs with at least 100 bp (49,847 contigs out of 51,265). Then, BLASTx [88] with a cut off value of 10e-3, was used to compare the R. philippinarum contigs with the NCBI Swissprot, the NCBI Metazoan Refseq, the NCBI nr and the UniprotKB/Trembl protein databases.