What genes it does or doesn’t have that may influence its suitability for use as a probiotic?

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What genes it does or doesn’t have that may influence its suitability for use as a probiotic?

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Hi everyone,
I'm a student working on a project - Analysis of the genome of a probiotic bacterium to support commercial development. I need help determining if the gene classes may be beneficial or detrimental to the strains used as a probiotic.
For the overview of the project, I received 2 short read sequences (Illumina) and 1 long read sequence (Nanopore) and need to see how to get the best assembly using the data, either long and short together or just short, just long. After I did the Unicycler assembly and then ran a tool (Kraken2) to identify its bacteria name which is Pediococcus pentosaceus SL4. I also ran it with RAST and had a result [google doc link removed]
So my problem is how I could look at this RAST result to determine if the gene classes may be beneficial or detrimental to the strains used as a probiotic. Should I run more tools to analyze it?
Feel free to leave a comment, I really need help.
Thanks.

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