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DNA & protein biological sequence databanks



Data sets hosted on this site:

Local mirror Description Home site
BlastDB Biosequence databases for BLAST searches NCBI
Blocks Highly conserved regions of proteins NCBI
CUTG CUTG: Codon Usage Tabulated from GenBank EBI
Ensembl Automatic annotation on eukaryotic genomes EnsEMBL
Ensembl Human Automatic annotation on eukaryotic genomes EnsEMBL
Enzyme Enzyme nomenclature database ExPASy
euGenes Eukaryote Genes Summary Databank IUBio
GenBank Genomes Whole genome sequence section of GenBank NCBI
GenBank GenBank Sequence Database NCBI
GeneOntology Vocabularies of gene functions and roles GeneOntology
GenPept Database of translated coding sequences from GenBank ABCC
Golden Path Golden Path Genome Assemblies from UCSC UCSC FTP Server
InterPro InterPro Protein databank EBI
KEGG Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes KEGG
PDB Protein Data Bank of 3-D macromolecular structures RCSB
PIR Protein Information Resource NBRF
Pfam The Pfam database of protein domains and HMMs WUSTL
Prosite* Database of protein families and domains ExPASy
Rebase The Restriction Enzyme Database NEB
RefSeq NCBI Reference Sequences NCBI
RICE Rice genome project cDNA from AFFRC NIAR
SRS Databanks List of active SRS databases around world EBI
SWISS-PROT* Annotated protein sequence database ExPASy (Australia)
Taxonomy Species names NCBI, EBI
TigrFAM tigr protein families TigrFAM
TrEMBL A supplement to SWISS-PROT EBI
UniGene Unique Gene Sequence Collection for Human, Mouse, Rat and Zebrafish NCBI
(All data sets are updated nightly)

Data totals about 300 Gigabytes in compressed format (as of Oct. 2004), and are updated from the primary sources nightly.
* See Addendum for commercial restrictions on SWISS-PROT and PROSITE


Current data sets include

DNA biosequence data include: GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ, REFSEQ.
Protein biosequence data include: SWISS-PROT*, TrEMBL, PIR, GENPEPT.
Protein structure data includes: PDB.
Other data include: BLOCKS, ENZYME, PROSITE*, REBASE, UNIGENE, BLAST, INTERPRO, PFAM, CUTG, ENSEMBL, euGenes, KEGG, RICE.


* Commercial use restrictions on SWISS-PROT and PROSITE: Publishers of the SWISS-PROT and PROSITE data sets ask that all commercial users participate in the funding of these important data by paying a license fee. No fee is charged to academic users.

This page was last updated on the 21st of January, 2010