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.

Alphafold

Sequence databases required for alphafold v2

Biobakery

Reference database for biobakery workflows

Diamond

NCIB nr database for Diamond

Genomad

Genomad databases

iGenomes

Ready-to-use reference sequences and annotations from Illumina

Kraken2

Refseq databases for taxonomic assignment of metagenomics sequencing reads

Metaphlan

Metaphlan database files

NCBI Blast

NCBI blast databases