BLAST Databases

On Discovery, we currently have the following databases available for BLAST searches. If you would like additional databases installed, please contact the Research Computing group at Research.Computing@dartmouth.edu

DATABASE

DESCRIPTION

est Expressed sequence tag (EST) sequences from human, mouse, and others
est_human A subset of est, contains human EST sequences
est_mouse A subset of est, contains mouse EST sequences
est_others A subset of est, contains non-human, non-mouse EST sequences
nr Non-redundant protein sequences from Genpept, Swissprot, PIR, PDF, PDB, and NCBI Refseq
nt Partially non-redundant nucleotide sequences from all traditional divisions of Genbank, EMBL, DDBJ (excludes GSS, STS, PAT, EST, HTG, WGS)
pataa Patent protein sequences from USPTO or EPO/JPO via EMBL/DDBJ
patnt Patent nucleotide sequences from USPTO or EPO/JPO via EMBL/DDBJ
refseq_genomic NCBI genomic reference sequences
refseq_protein NCBI protein reference sequences
refseq_rna Expressed sequence tag (EST) sequences from human, mouse, and others
swissprot NCBI transcript reference sequences