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tags: bioinformatics
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# Bioinformatics databases
Tufts Research Technology provides a set of centrally-maintained scientific reference databases for HPC users. Below is a list of the datasets available. To request a new dataset or an update, please contact us at tts-research@tufts.edu.

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- header: "{fas}`dna;pst-color-primary` Alphafold"
  content: "Sequence databases required for alphafold v2"
  link: "doc/alphafold.html"

- header: "{fas}`dna;pst-color-primary` Biobakery"
  content: "Reference database for biobakery workflows"
  link: "doc/biobakery.html"

- header: "{fas}`dna;pst-color-primary` Diamond"
  content: "NCIB nr database for Diamond"
  link: "doc/diamond.html"

- header: "{fas}`dna;pst-color-primary` Genomad"
  content: "Genomad databases"
  link: "doc/genomad_db.html"

- header: "{fas}`dna;pst-color-primary` iGenomes"
  content: "Ready-to-use reference sequences and annotations from Illumina"
  link: "doc/igenomes.html"

- header: "{fas}`dna;pst-color-primary` Kraken2"
  content: "Refseq databases for taxonomic assignment of metagenomics sequencing reads"
  link: "doc/kraken2.html"

- header: "{fas}`dna;pst-color-primary` Metaphlan"
  content: "Metaphlan database files"
  link: "doc/metaphlan.html"

- header: "{fas}`dna;pst-color-primary` NCBI Blast"
  content: "NCBI blast databases"
  link: "doc/ncbi.html"