Scientific Reference Data

We provide a set of centrally-maintained scientific reference databases for Biowulf users. You can search through this data here. To request a new database or an update, please contact us at staff@hpc.nih.gov.


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2026-09-01 Betacoronavirus Blast database of Betacoronavirus nucleotide sequences. (Blast database full path and name - /fdb/blastdb/Betacoronavirus)
2026-09-01 taxonomy The Taxonomy Database is a curated classification and nomenclature for all of the organisms in the public sequence databases.
2026-08-30 NCBI SRA Refseq data NCBI SRA Refseq data
2026-08-30 UCSC goldenPath The UCSC Genomics Institute maintains a broad collection of vertebrate and model organism assemblies and annotations, along with a large suite of tools for viewing, analyzing and downloading data.
2026-08-29 NCBI nr Blast database NCBI nonredundant comprehensive protein database, compiled from GenBank CDS translations, PDB, Swiss-Prot, PIR, and PRF (Blast database full path and name - /fdb/blastdb/nr )
2026-08-29 NCBI nt Blast database NCBI nonredundant comprehensive nucleotide database, compiled from Genbank, Refseq, TPA and PDB. (Blast database full path and name - /fdb/blastdb/nt )
2026-08-29 Patent nucleotide sequences Blast db Patent nucleotide sequences (Blast database full path and name - /fdb/blastdb/patnt )
2026-08-29 PDB nucleotide sequences Blast db Protein Data Bank nucleotide sequences. (Blast database full path and name - /fdb/blastdb/pdbnt )
2026-08-29 PDB protein sequences Blast db Protein Data Bank sequences. (Blast database full path and name - /fdb/blastdb/pdbaa )
2026-08-29 Swissprot Blast database Curated, highly-annotated protein sequence database (Blast database full path and name - /fdb/blastdb/swissprot )
2026-08-27 UCSC gbdb The UCSC Genomics Institute maintains a broad collection of vertebrate and model organism assemblies and annotations, along with a large suite of tools for viewing, analyzing and downloading data.
2026-08-03 dorado models Models for the dorado basecaller by ONT
2026-07-23 eggNOG-mapper eggNOG-mapper is a tool for functional annotation of large sets of sequences based on fast orthology assignments using precomputed clusters and phylogenies from the eggNOG database.
2026-07-20 dfam The Dfam database is a open collection of Transposable Element DNA sequence alignments, hidden Markov Models (HMMs), consensus sequences, and genome annotations.
2026-06-16 diamond databases Select reference databases for the diamond application
2026-05-07 Clair3-RNA models Variant-calling models for Clair3-RNA
2026-04-19 Protein Data Bank An archive of experimentally determined three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
2026-01-07 Reference data for gtdb-tk [Not available]
2025-12-20 Clair3 Pre-trained Models [Not available]
2025-11-05 ensembl Ensembl is a genome browser for vertebrate genomes that supports research in comparative genomics, evolution, sequence variation and transcriptional regulation.