Databases Available for BLAST Searches

Nucleotide sequence databases

Genbank

All GenBank sequences except ESTs, HTGs and GSSs (see current release).

EST

Sequences from GenBank EST divisions (EST = expressed sequence tag) (see current release).

HTG

Sequences from GenBank HTG divisions (HTG = high throughput genome sequences = draft genomic sequences) (see current release).

GSS

Sequences from GenBank GSS divisions (GSS = genome survey sequence) (see current release).

rRNA

Ribosomal RNA emsequences described in GenBank annotations (see current release).

Nurebase

DNA sequences from the Nurebase database of nuclear receptors (see current release).

Protein sequence databases

Genbank_prot

GenBank protein-coding sequences translations (see current release).

sptrembl

Non-redundant compilation of SWISS-PROT/TrEMBL (see current release).

HOBACGEN

Database of homologous bacterial genes (see current release).

Human

Human protein sequences from SWISS-PROT/TrEMBL (see current release).

Nurebase

Protein sequences from the Nurebase database of nuclear receptors (see current release).