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Major resources available by ftp (ftp.ncbi.nih.gov):

arrowheadBLAST Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

For stand-alone sequence comparison software.

arrowhead Cn3D

Stand-alone software for viewing structures in three dimensions.

arrowheadData Repository

Download collections of contributed molecular biology data.

arrowhead GenBank

Download the full release database or daily updates.

Note: there are mirror sites for GenBank files at the San Diego SuperComputer Center (genbank.sdsc.edu/pub) and at Indiana University (bio-mirror.net/biomirror/genbank).

arrowhead Genome Assembly/Annotation Projects

Download complete genomes/chromosomes, contigs and reference sequence mRNAs and proteins.

arrowhead NCBI Toolbox

NCBI software tools for building bioinformatics resources.

arrowhead RefSeq

Download curated RefSeq full release or daily updates.

arrowhead Sequin

Stand-alone GenBank sequence submission software.

arrowhead SKY/M-FISH & CGH

Download the SKY/M-FISH and CGH database.

arrowhead dbSNP

Download the SNP database.

arrowhead Taxonomy

Download data files from the Taxonomy database.

arrowhead UniGene

Download data files from the UniGene datasets.

arrowhead UniSTS

Download data files from the UniSTS resource.


Information on how to uncompress *.gz and *.Z files is also available.


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