Database and Software distribution by FTP

Both major sequence databases and some secondary databases are available for downloading by anonymous FTP. They are physically distributed between Lausanne and Geneva, and will be cross-referenced in the near future.
The sequence databases are distributed in native, fasta or GCG formats, and are compressed "on the fly" using GNU gzip. Please use standard anonymous FTP if you want to retrieve uncompressed or Unix compressed files. The major databases are updated once a week.
The following sequence databases are currently available:
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • EMBL and updates
  • Swiss-Prot and updates
  • dbEST (expressed sequence tags)
  • dbSTS (sequence-tagged sites)
  • non-redundant protein database, including automatic translation of nucleic acid databases
  • REPBASE (repetitive elements)
  • GenPep (translation of GenBank)
  • Yeast genome (DNA and protein)
  • EPD (eukaryotic promoter database)
  • PROSITE (protein sequence motifs)
  • TMbase (membrane spanning segments)
  • Profile Scaling
  • Profiles
  • SEView
  • Boxshade
  • linux blast
  • linux dotter
  • pftools 2.3
  • prosite_scan
  • TMpred
  • ESTScan
We encourage Swiss users to use this repository if they want to maintain local copies of the databases. It will save them time (faster connections) and money (network traffic at half the cost).