Dduh

That's what I get for not researching thoroughly: the software isn't necessary because UniProt provides all annotations in GAF format. As this is text and one record per line, a simple grep does the trick. But it's even more embarrassing for the project leads, as the data is provided by UniProt just for those people that are part of an annotation project.

So, after additionally having provided them with a list of unannotated genes, let's see how it comes out.